Dr Christian Schemmel

Political Economy Fellow 2021-22

Making All Work Pay: Just Wage Regulation

The project aims to interrogate the special significance of work and its adequate remuneration by integrating political philosophy with relevant literature in comparative political science and political economy on low wage regulation, and social psychology and public health studies on the effect of low pay. Its substantive hypothesis is that adequate minimum wage guarantees are a requirement of social justice both because they express social recognition of work and because they are necessary (albeit not sufficient) for combating domination at work.

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Biography

Christian Schemmel is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester, where he is affiliated to the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (Mancept), and the Work and Equalities Institute. Before joining the University of Manchester, he worked at the European University Institute, Florence, and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His main research interests are theories of social justice and equality, liberalism and republicanism, global justice, self-respect and other self-evaluative attitudes, and issues at the intersection of political theories of justice and equality with political economy: political theory of the welfare state, workplace and economic democracy, and the social significance, and just regulation, of financial remuneration, especially at the lower end (his ISRF project).

His monograph Justice and Egalitarian Relations is in production with Oxford University Press US, and will appear in early 2021.

Biographical details correct as of 25.09.24

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