Digitalisierung industrieller Arbeit

The so-called „second machine age“ or „Industrie 4.0“ intents a wide-spread digitalization and automation of manufacturing processes. Besides visionary technological scenarios and as-sumed economic benefits, questions arise concering the social impact of this developement: How does industrial work look like? What qualifications do employees need and how many people will be working in this sector in the future at all? Notable authors from both social and technical sciences give their answears and estimations to these and following questions adressing the consequences of a fourth industrial revolution on work in manufacturing industry. The articles identify typical fields of application of digital technologies in industrial processes, dis-cuss the evolvement of new organizational structures and point out the possible effects on society in the long term. The book outlines the need for a socio-technical perspective on contemporary and future techno-logies and their interdependent effects to give profound advice to policy makers.
With contributions by:
Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Peter Ittermann, Jonathan Niehaus, Wilhelm Bauer, Sebastian Schlund, Lars Windelband, Bernd Dworschak, Kathrin Schnalzer, Walter Ganz, Volker Stich, Gerhard Gudergan, Roman Senderek, Gudela Grote, Jochen Deuse, Felix Busch, Kirsten Weisner, Marlies Steffen, Gerrit Hornung, Kai Hofmann, Sabine Pfeiffer, Gerrit Hornung, Daniela Ahrens, Georg Spöttl, Sabine Pfeiffer, Anne Suphan, Peter Brödner, Klaus Dörre, Jürgen Howaldt, Ralf Kopp und Jürgen Schultze