(Papers to be published in the Employee Rights & Employee Policy Journal)
Additional presenters to be selected from Call for Papers.
Work is central to our lives. Yet exactly what does it mean “to work” from a legal perspective? This panel will consider this question as it relates to various forms of invisible work performed both by individuals who labor without pay as well as those who, while paid, perform activities that are heavily marginalized as labor. While women’s unpaid domestic activities in the home remain the paradigmatic form of invisible labor, in today’s shifting economy, the concept also applies to home care work, interns, gold farming, sex work, prison labor and a host of other activities that remain largely out of public view and fail to resonate as “work” in the public imagination. The panelists will focus on how the law defines work, how those definitions influence our explicit and implicit understandings of work, the policy implications of those definitions and how the law can craft more inclusive definitions.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.