Papers by Vivan Storlund
International journal of management science and business administration, 2024
A small number of the world population, 1 %, is getting richer while an increasing number, the 99... more A small number of the world population, 1 %, is getting richer while an increasing number, the 99 %, are getting poorer. This is by now an undisputed fact. Behind this scenario, we have major societal trends since the 1970s; globalisation, flexibilisation of working life standards, the introduction of neoliberal economic policies, as well as the introduction of digital technologies. These changes have, in a variety of ways, adversely affected the playing field among different sectors and groups in society. To this should be added the longstanding trend of depleting natural resources, which should urgently be reversed to secure continued existence on Mother Earth. The present neoliberal policies are destroying the conditions for democracy Arran Gare says, illustrating it with the situation in the USA. Between 1989
International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, 2024
A small number of the world population, 1 %, is getting richer while an increasing number, the 99... more A small number of the world population, 1 %, is getting richer while an increasing number, the 99 %, are getting poorer. This is by now an undisputed fact. Behind this scenario, we have major societal trends since the 1970s; globalisation, flexibilisation of working life standards, the introduction of neoliberal economic policies, as well as the introduction of digital technologies. These changes have, in a variety of ways, adversely affected the playing field among different sectors and groups in society. To this should be added the longstanding trend of depleting natural resources, which should urgently be reversed to secure continued existence on Mother Earth. The present neoliberal policies are destroying the conditions for democracy Arran Gare says, illustrating it with the situation in the USA. Between 1989
Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 19, no.2, 2023
We are today at a societal juncture, where we need new approaches to tackle societal issues. The ... more We are today at a societal juncture, where we need new approaches to tackle societal issues. The transition from an industrial society to one dominated by digital means, as well as the neoliberal policies that have been dominating during the past 30 years or so, have led to growing social inequalities. Thus, a new social contract is often called for, and it is then timely to look back at Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract. We will do so here, and pin Rousseau's theory down through the Papakonstantinidis' Win-win-win method. 1
Malta University Publishers Ltd. eBooks, 2006
Blog post at www.vivanstorlund.com, 2023
I have for years been seeking explanations to why we have been haunted by the neoliberal economi... more I have for years been seeking explanations to why we have been haunted by the neoliberal economic policies and new public management (NPM) during the past 30 years or so, notwithstanding the obvious damage it has done in most quarters except for a small minority of rich people. This is by now a well-established fact. And, at long last, we get research offering the bigger picture, announcing that the neoliberal era is at its end. But that is not the end of the story. How to undo these policies and how to proceed are no simple matters. But this is a good start.
My theme is somewhat odd in this conference concerned with Mediterranean maritime heritage. We do... more My theme is somewhat odd in this conference concerned with Mediterranean maritime heritage. We do, however, have a few meeting points, such as the question of what our recollection of history would be without the work of artists. I hardly need to convince anybody in this audience that artistic work is work, and that it has a value, independently of whether it generates money or not. Imagine how much poorer our recollection of history would be, if we did not have the work of artists – taken in the widest sense – to convey to us past times and cultures. There is one further point that unites my research perception, and that is what I want to talk about. In this gathering of historians, I will be concerned with a very contemporary matter: how we perceive our own time, and particularly how we perceive artistic work. Throughout time, most artists have had to struggle for their material survival while doing what they had to do – create. My concern is that there has not been much improveme...
Today's transition from the industrial to the digital era requires new ways of perceiving work; h... more Today's transition from the industrial to the digital era requires new ways of perceiving work; how meaningful and sustainable it is, and how it contributes to or extracts from the common good. There are, in the economic sphere, promising advances to move beyond the narrow way in which the gross domestic product, GDP, measures a country's standard of living to also measure social aspects. A corresponding rethinking is needed in labour law, but here we're falling behind.
Drafts by Vivan Storlund
Today's transition from the industrial to the digital era requires new ways of perceiving work; h... more Today's transition from the industrial to the digital era requires new ways of perceiving work; how meaningful and sustainable it is, and how it contributes to or extracts from the common good. There are, in the economic sphere, promising advances to move beyond the narrow way in which the gross domestic product, GDP, measures a country's standard of living to also to measure social aspects. A corresponding rethinking is needed in labour law, but here we're falling behind.
Books by Vivan Storlund
Art and entertainment are fast growing sectors of the economy today, reflecting significant soci... more Art and entertainment are fast growing sectors of the economy today, reflecting significant societal change. The new conditions of the information and communication society have in important ways contributed to a diversification of working life and to the increased use of so called 'atypical' work formats. As a general trend, the share of atypical work has, since the 1970s, increased from a few per cent to some 20 to 30 per cent in western countries.
To continue to regard work that deviates from the old standard of permanent full-time employment as atypical, despite its magnitude, indicates that law has not kept up with the factual change in society. This can have severe repercussions for persons adversely affected, i.e. in the form of discrimination or deprivation of the basic prerequisites of a legal order, predictability and legal certainty.
To come to grips with these changes requires a new approach that reveals a person's factual situation and allows for an assessment of how it relates to human rights standards, particularly economic, social and cultural rights.
Artists are professionals for whom there are no proper categories in labour and social security legislation. This makes their status a fruitful object of scrutiny, as artistic work requires a changed perception of work, to include also other values than purely economic ones. Also human and social aspirations need to be considered, as they are articulated in cultural policies.
The nature of artistic work also assists in displaying the changing makeup of the information society. Part of this new makeup is that a person has come to assume, or is expected to assume, a role as an active player in working life. Within a span of a few decades, people have been expected to transmute from passive men and women by the assembly line, subdued to cost-effectiveness in time and movement, to a person who is supposed to be one's own architect of fortune.
This investigation departs from the question why economic, social and cultural rights have been so ineffective in protecting persons who have been adversely affected by structural changes during the past decades. Explanations are, at a practical level, sought by contrasting economic and social conditions. At a theoretical level, explanations are sought in the history of ideas, whereas remedies are offered relying on criteria provided by contemporary theories of social justice and ethics.
Conference Presentations by Vivan Storlund
widening horizons by mining the wealth of creative thinkers, 2018
Information and communication technology and globalisation have been major drivers for profound c... more Information and communication technology and globalisation have been major drivers for profound changes surrounding us, that can be epitomised through the title of Jeremy Rifkin’s book The Zero Marginal Cost Society, The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014). This is a paradigm shift — big time — full of both threats and potentials. So, the question is: How shall we go about these changes?
widening horizons by mining the wealth of creative thinkers: to seize the empowering potentials of the digital age with artists as precursors and basic income as the means, 2018
Information and communication technology and globalisation have been major drivers for profound c... more Information and communication technology and globalisation have been major drivers for profound changes surrounding us, that can be epitomised through the title of Jeremy Rifkin’s book The Zero Marginal Cost Society, The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (2014). This is a paradigm shift — big time — full of both threats and potentials. So, the question is: How shall we go about these changes?
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To continue to regard work that deviates from the old standard of permanent full-time employment as atypical, despite its magnitude, indicates that law has not kept up with the factual change in society. This can have severe repercussions for persons adversely affected, i.e. in the form of discrimination or deprivation of the basic prerequisites of a legal order, predictability and legal certainty.
To come to grips with these changes requires a new approach that reveals a person's factual situation and allows for an assessment of how it relates to human rights standards, particularly economic, social and cultural rights.
Artists are professionals for whom there are no proper categories in labour and social security legislation. This makes their status a fruitful object of scrutiny, as artistic work requires a changed perception of work, to include also other values than purely economic ones. Also human and social aspirations need to be considered, as they are articulated in cultural policies.
The nature of artistic work also assists in displaying the changing makeup of the information society. Part of this new makeup is that a person has come to assume, or is expected to assume, a role as an active player in working life. Within a span of a few decades, people have been expected to transmute from passive men and women by the assembly line, subdued to cost-effectiveness in time and movement, to a person who is supposed to be one's own architect of fortune.
This investigation departs from the question why economic, social and cultural rights have been so ineffective in protecting persons who have been adversely affected by structural changes during the past decades. Explanations are, at a practical level, sought by contrasting economic and social conditions. At a theoretical level, explanations are sought in the history of ideas, whereas remedies are offered relying on criteria provided by contemporary theories of social justice and ethics.
Conference Presentations by Vivan Storlund
To continue to regard work that deviates from the old standard of permanent full-time employment as atypical, despite its magnitude, indicates that law has not kept up with the factual change in society. This can have severe repercussions for persons adversely affected, i.e. in the form of discrimination or deprivation of the basic prerequisites of a legal order, predictability and legal certainty.
To come to grips with these changes requires a new approach that reveals a person's factual situation and allows for an assessment of how it relates to human rights standards, particularly economic, social and cultural rights.
Artists are professionals for whom there are no proper categories in labour and social security legislation. This makes their status a fruitful object of scrutiny, as artistic work requires a changed perception of work, to include also other values than purely economic ones. Also human and social aspirations need to be considered, as they are articulated in cultural policies.
The nature of artistic work also assists in displaying the changing makeup of the information society. Part of this new makeup is that a person has come to assume, or is expected to assume, a role as an active player in working life. Within a span of a few decades, people have been expected to transmute from passive men and women by the assembly line, subdued to cost-effectiveness in time and movement, to a person who is supposed to be one's own architect of fortune.
This investigation departs from the question why economic, social and cultural rights have been so ineffective in protecting persons who have been adversely affected by structural changes during the past decades. Explanations are, at a practical level, sought by contrasting economic and social conditions. At a theoretical level, explanations are sought in the history of ideas, whereas remedies are offered relying on criteria provided by contemporary theories of social justice and ethics.