A Just Future with fair work - but for whom? | LABOR.A® 2025

zuletzt aktualisiert: 5. January 2026

From the conference guide of LABOR.A® 2025:

The idea of a society that offers equal opportunities for all, regardless of their origin, class, gender, or age, is under threat. Access has always been exclusive in many areas, but at least educational equality, gender equity, and intergenerational justice seemed to be visions that mainstream society could agree on and that institutions were committed to.

Today, ideas about individual performance and natural leadership are gaining ground at an alarming rate. Trust in the balancing power of our chronically underfunded social, educational, and academic systems is fading. At the same time, expectations that teachers and educators could bridge milieus that are falling apart, are huge.

We want to discuss whether our society's values are currently shifting and what we need to do to break down barriers for just access nevertheless. What can academia achieve in this complex situation; what can politics do? And is it reason to hope that "class" is subject to politicization again these days?

Speakers: Claudia Bogedan (Hans Böckler Foundation), Marlen Hobrack (Author), Micha Klapp (Berlin Senate Department for Labor, Social Services, Gender Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination), Dario Schramm (simpleclub GmbH)

Moderation: Julia Kropf and Martin Hoffmann