Transformation Processes in the World of Labour

This section analyses industrial production regimes of modernity as social orders from a synchronous and diachronic perspective. The individual research projects examine social consequences of the changes in the world of work in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Forschung

Projekte

The first Ford Taunus leaves the assembly line in Cologne, 23. November 1948. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2005-0722-512 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2005-0722-512, Köln, Erster Ford Taunus läuft vom Fließband., CC BY-SA 3.0 DE

Fordism as a Keyword of the Twentieth Century

Rüdiger Hachtmann (Senior Fellow)
Book project

The target of this project is a monograph entitled ‘The Fordist Century’. The study will focus on Germany, including perspectives on global and international developments (besides the USA, particularly Japan, the USSR, Italy and Sweden [post-Fordist Volvo system]).

Screenshot of the website wandel-der-arbeit.de, BArch, Bild-F040741-0020 / Lothar Schaack

Social Consequences of the Transformation of the World of Work in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Frank Bösch, Winfried Süß

Postgraduate Research Group of the Hans Böckler Foundation

Direction: Frank Bösch/ZZF, Winfried Süß/ZZF (speaker), Stefan Berger/ISB Bochum, und Andreas Wirsching/IfZ München-Berlin
Duration: November 2021 - October 2024 (second funding phase of the Kolleg).

Women in Movement. Migrant Self-Organization and Transnational Mobilization of Migrant Women from Turkey in West Germany (1961-1990)

Elisabeth Kimmerle

PhD project
Project leader at ZZF: Frank Bösch

Labor migration from Turkey to West Germany in the 1960s created a transnational space through which the countries’ histories became deeply entangled. The Project explores these entanglements, focusing on how migrant women from Turkey as local and transnational actors negotiated and expanded the limited agency they had due to their migration to West Germany.

Gesellschaftsgeschichte des ostdeutschen Handwerks im Systemumbruch zwischen 1980 und 2000

Forschungsprojekt
Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

Ausgangspunkt des Projekts ist der Richtungswechsel in der DDR-Handwerkspolitik seit 1976. Im Vergleich verschiedener Gewerke wird erforscht, welchen privaten und genossenschaftlichen Betrieben sich seit den späten 70er Jahren neue Arbeits- und Verdienstmöglichkeiten eröffneten und welche nach wie vor um ihre Existenz kämpfen mussten.

Transformation Processes in the World of Labour

This section analyses industrial production regimes of modernity as social orders from a synchronous and diachronic perspective. The individual research projects examine social consequences of the changes in the world of work in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Forschung

Projekte

The first Ford Taunus leaves the assembly line in Cologne, 23. November 1948. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2005-0722-512 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2005-0722-512, Köln, Erster Ford Taunus läuft vom Fließband., CC BY-SA 3.0 DE

Fordism as a Keyword of the Twentieth Century

Rüdiger Hachtmann (Senior Fellow)
Book project

The target of this project is a monograph entitled ‘The Fordist Century’. The study will focus on Germany, including perspectives on global and international developments (besides the USA, particularly Japan, the USSR, Italy and Sweden [post-Fordist Volvo system]).

Screenshot of the website wandel-der-arbeit.de, BArch, Bild-F040741-0020 / Lothar Schaack

Social Consequences of the Transformation of the World of Work in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Frank Bösch, Winfried Süß

Postgraduate Research Group of the Hans Böckler Foundation

Direction: Frank Bösch/ZZF, Winfried Süß/ZZF (speaker), Stefan Berger/ISB Bochum, und Andreas Wirsching/IfZ München-Berlin
Duration: November 2021 - October 2024 (second funding phase of the Kolleg).

Women in Movement. Migrant Self-Organization and Transnational Mobilization of Migrant Women from Turkey in West Germany (1961-1990)

Elisabeth Kimmerle

PhD project
Project leader at ZZF: Frank Bösch

Labor migration from Turkey to West Germany in the 1960s created a transnational space through which the countries’ histories became deeply entangled. The Project explores these entanglements, focusing on how migrant women from Turkey as local and transnational actors negotiated and expanded the limited agency they had due to their migration to West Germany.

Gesellschaftsgeschichte des ostdeutschen Handwerks im Systemumbruch zwischen 1980 und 2000

Forschungsprojekt
Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

Ausgangspunkt des Projekts ist der Richtungswechsel in der DDR-Handwerkspolitik seit 1976. Im Vergleich verschiedener Gewerke wird erforscht, welchen privaten und genossenschaftlichen Betrieben sich seit den späten 70er Jahren neue Arbeits- und Verdienstmöglichkeiten eröffneten und welche nach wie vor um ihre Existenz kämpfen mussten.