Join us on April 30th for a one-day, interdisciplinary workshop on the challenges and possibilities that digitalisation presents for workers and organized labour. The workshop will bring together perspectives from philosophy, economics, legal theory, and sociology, as well as expert insight from the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).
- Date
- Thursday 30 Apr 2026, 10:00 - 17:00
- Type
- Workshop
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Mandeville T3-31
We are glad to host the following speakers:
Juri Viehoff, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Utrecht University)
Worker’s Solidarity in the Age of AI
Sabrina Genz, Assistant Professor of Labour Economics (Utrecht University)
Automation and Collective Agreements
Joe Atkinson, Associate Professor of Employment Law and Co-Director of the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law (University of Southampton)
Managerial Authority in the Age of AI and a Right to Justification at Work
Nana Wesley Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice Director of the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) (University of Copenhagen)
Union Digitalization, Democracy, and Collective Bargaining Strength
Ronald Dekker,Senior Scientist Integrator (The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO))
TBA
Each speaker will give a presentation, followed by a Q&A.
The workshop will take place in person at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Registration is required to attend. To register, please contact: boncheva@esphil.eur.nl.
The event is organized by Gergana Boncheva (Erasmus School of Philosophy) and supported by the SSH-Breed Sector Plan on The Digital Society.

