PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be confirmed.

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Module coordinator

Dr B A Sachs-Cobbe

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Module Staff

Dr Benjamin Sachs

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Module description

This module is an investigation of ethical issues raised by changes in the economic structures of industrialized countries. We will investigate moral problems arising from rising inequality, the casualization of labour, and the automation of jobs previously set aside for humans. Foundational issues to be discussed include the concept of work, the relationship between work and desert/entitlement and the relationship between work and well being. Applied issues to be discussed include various policy responses to the economic challenges: e.g., the living wage, the state as employer of last resort, and the universal basic income. The module will focus on contemporary analytic philosophy but will also have elements of the critical philosophy of gender.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS PY1006 OR PASS PY1012

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 2 hour Lecture, 1 x 1 hour Seminar