What's wrong with work? Alienation, labour, and meaning

大多数成年人一生中的大部分时间都在从事某种形式的有报酬的活动，他们和其他人将其视为"工作"。尽管如此，工作这个话题在政治哲学中仍然缺乏理论性，本项目将开始纠正这一点。为了做到这一点，我集中在三个问题上：i）如何理解工作，ii）工作可能有什么问题，iii）我们如何解决工作问题。我开始先评估人们对工作的不同理解方式，然后转向当代政治哲学--特别是罗尔斯学派、共和主义者和女权主义者--对工作的处理。为了理解是什么让工作变得如此悲惨，而不仅仅是在边缘情况下存在问题，我重新解释了异化的概念，并将其作为诊断工作问题的框架。在评估了当代和历史上的工作批评家所提供的解决方案的解放潜力之后，我提出了一些新的方法来使工作不那么痛苦。(Oct（2017 - 10月18日）目标：我第一年的博士研究已经进行了一半，到今年年底，我将完成一个开篇章节，分析政治哲学中对工作的不同理解。第二部分：工作有什么问题？(Oct（18 - 10月19日）目的：第二章批判性地评估当代政治哲学中关于工作的讨论，第三章重建和重新解释异化，第四章根据这种重建分析工作。第三节：解决工作的问题（10月19日起）目的：第五章分析和批判性评估现有的减少工作危害的战略，最后一章是关于减少或结束工作问题的替代战略。

The majority of adults spend much of their lives engaged in some form of remunerative activity which they and others conceptualise as 'work'. In spite of this, the topic of work remains under-theorised in political philosophy, something this project will begin to rectify. To do this I focus on three issues: i) how work has been understood, ii) what might be wrong with work, and iii) how we could solve problems with work. I begin by assessing the different ways in which work has been understood, then turn to its treatment within contemporary political philosophy - particularly by Rawlsians, republicans, and feminists. To understand what might make work as it currently exists generally miserable rather than only problematic in marginal cases, I reinterpret the concept of alienation and use it as a framework to diagnose problems with work. After assessing the emancipatory potential of the solutions offered by contemporary and historical critics of work, I suggest new ways to make work less miserable.Schedule of workSection 1: How has work been understood? (Oct 2017 - Oct 18)Aims: I am halfway through my first year of doctoral research- by the end of this year I will have completed an opening chapter analysing the different ways in which work has been understood within political philosophy.Section 2: What's wrong with work? (Oct 18 - Oct 19)Aims: second chapter involving critical assessment of discussions of work in contemporary political philosophy, third chapter reconstructing and reinterpreting alienation, fourth chapter analysing work in light of this reconstruction.Section 3: Solving work's problems (Oct 19 onwards)Aims: fifth chapter analysing and critically assessing existing strategies to reduce the harms of work, final chapter on alternative strategies to reduce or end problems with work.