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Professor Dr Birgit Mahnkopf is Professor of European Social Policy at the Berlin School of Economics and a member of the academic advisory board of attac Deutschland. Her major research fields are: the economic, social and political aspects of globalisation; European and international politics; industrial relations and the economic and political aspects of education. She is the author of numerous books and articles. At present she is researching "Globalisation and Global Governance" and "Work Relations in the 21st Century" among other topics. |
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Professor Klaus Dörre is Professor of Work, Industrial and Economic Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, and Director of the Research Institute for Labour, Education and Participation at Ruhr University, Bochum. He is a member of the Hesse Innovation Commission and sits on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Hans Böckler Foundation. He is also a peer reviewer and provides expert opinions for various leading academic journals. His main research interests are globalisation, participatory management concepts, labour relations/trade unions, right-wing extremism, the future of political education, and economic sociology.  Precarity – the Causes and Effects of Insecure Employment by Professor Dr Klaus Dörre (Column: Precarity)   |
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Professor Dr Jürgen Kocka is President of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) and Professor of the History of the Industrial World at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin). He studied history, politics, German literature and language, sociology, and philosophy in Marburg, Vienna, North Carolina and Berlin. Professor Kocka has received numerous prizes and distinctions, most recently the Bochum Historian Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of economic and social history. Reflections on the History and Future of Work by Professor Dr Jürgen Kocka (Column: What is Work?) |
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Dr Marcus Hawel is on the academic staff of the Political Science Department of the Leibniz University, Hanover. Freelance publisher and the co-editor of the internet magazine Sopos (www.sopos.org). Advisor in political adult education. Major research fields: The Frankfurt School, political governance theory and legal philosophy, critical theory of nation and modernity, the political economics of labour. Unemployment is an act of violence… and the destruction of wealth by Dr. Marcus Hawel (Column: JobLess) |
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Helma Lutz, is professor of sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Her main focus is on women’s studies and gender research. Before she was a professor (not holding a chair) at the University of Münster. She read social pedagogy, sociology, political science and educational science in Kassel and Berlin; she took her PhD on sociology at the Amsterdam University in 1990 and gained promotion to professorial status in educational science (Münster 1999) and sociology (Münster 2005). Since 1999 she has been with the department for educational science and social sciences at the University of Münster. Scholarship holder at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) 2004/5 and Goeppert-Mayer-guest professor at the University of Hildesheim 2005/6.
Her current work and research focuses on gender research and migration research, intersectionality, research on racism and ethnicity, biography research.
Her most recent publications include: Vom Weltmarkt in den Privathaushalt. Die ‚neuen Dienstmädchen’ im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, Opladen 2007; Migration and domestic work: A European perspective on a global theme (Herausgeberin), Aldershot Herbst 2007. Homepage Helma Lutz Private Households: The World Market for Female Migrant Workers By Helma Lutz |
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Karin Schulze Buschoff studied politics, sociology and German Literature and Language at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster. She completed her Phd in 2002. From 1993 to 1999 she was on the academic staff of the Social Structure and Social Reporting Department, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin, researching for the German Federation of Trade Unions project ‘Labour Market and Lifestyles’ and the project ‘Comparison of part-time work in Europe’. From 2002 to 2004, she was Head of the section Fundamental Issues of Labour Market Policy at the National Management Board of Administration of the German Federation of Trade Unions and ver.di, (United Union of Services), Berlin. Since May 2004, she has been an academic researcher in the department "Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung" (i. e. Labour market policy and employment) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Currently she is researching the topic "New freelancers in European comparison. Structures, dynamics, support and social security relating to new self-employed paid employment". Greater Flexibility: the Great Hope of German Labour Market Policy by Karin Schulze Buschoff (Column: Precarity) |
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Philip Wotschack is a scientist working in the "Labour Market Policy and Employment" research unit at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). In 1997 he graduated from the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) with a diploma in sociology. His research fields include flexible working hours and household time allocation, work-life balance and life-course policies, working time policies at corporate and industrial level, time arrangements and governance practices in the household, as well as social inequality and stratification. He is currently involved in the WZB empirical research project “Working-life time accounts and biographical lifestyle”. Working Life-Time by Philip Wotschack and Prof. Dr. Eckart Hildebrandt (Column: Precarity) |
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