The ontology of work and the economics of value underpin the legal institution, with the existence of modern law predicated upon the subject as labourer.

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Tiziano Toracca is a literary scholar, Visiting Professor at the Department of

Literary Studies, Gent University and Research Fellow at the University of Torino.

Angela Condello is a legal philosopher, Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at

the University of Torino, the Principal Investigator of a Jean Monnet Module and

the Director of LabOnt Law.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Angela Condello, Tiziano Toracca: I work, therefore I am?

Part I: Law and Philosophy

1. Acosta Emiliano: Migrants, Marx, Descartes, Fichte and Hegel: On Working and Being

2. Andina Tiziana: Work, Pensions and Transgenerational Justice

3. Condello Angela: The Disclosure of Humanity: Challenges of the Digital Turn

4. De Vos Marc: How the future of work can work for the workers

5. Eleveld Anja: Europe and the Construction of a Worker Mentality: Human Rights as an Instrument of Neoliberal Government? The Case of Dutch Labour Activation Programmes for Welfare Recipients

6. Ferraris Maurizio: From Capital to Documediality

7. Mason Luke: On working and being: the legal metaphysics of labour and the constitutional errors of Social Europe

8. Tataryn Anastasia: Irregular Migrants at Work and the Groundless Legal Subject

9. Terrone Enrico: The Ontology of Labor

10. Van de Vijver Gertrudis: Objectivity, repetition, and the search for satisfaction

    *** Part II: Literature and Cinema*

11. Ayers David: From Text to Work: or, Operation Without Production

12. Baghetti Carlo: Works by Vitaliano Trevisan and the Representation of Work in the Neo-Liberal Age

13. Baracco Alberto: I Can Quit Whenever I Want. The Academic Precariat in Italian Cinema

14. Contarini Silvia: The refusal of the work in the Italian Literature: from Vogliamo tutto (1971) to Works (2016)

15. Jansen Monica: Labour and identity in documentary web series on new Italian emigrants

16. Marks John: Deux jours, une nuit and La loi du marché: the tactical withdrawal of government and capital

17. Santi Mara: When The Flash said: "We were all struck by that lightning". Work and the Contemporary Superhero TV-Shows

18. Shiach Morag: A new name and a new job, that's what he'd like' Identity, Labour and Precarity, 1915-2015

19. Toracca Tiziano: In the name of a loss: work and the contradictions of contemporary literary imaginary