[EN]Edition Sigma

englischThis book, now in its second edition, centres on the question of how the working population’s opportunities for participation develop under the conditions of flexible work, project work or remote work. Its authors adopt a comparative perspective in their approach to addressing this question, [...]

englischThe concern among some during the 1932/1933 elections that ‘Hitler means war’ was confirmed when military spending increased considerably under the National Socialist government. Systematic rearmament helped reduce unemployment, but except for the establishment of the Kraftdurch Freude [...]

Der schillernde Begriff der Grand Challenges ist in aller Munde und Grund für eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem forschungsleitenden Konzept. Die Buchbeiträge widmen sich dem Thema sowohl in theoretischer Hinsicht, als auch mit Blick auf die Domänen Gesundheit, Digitalisierung und Umwelt.

englischThis study focuses on corporate negotiation of business travel. Although business travel goes beyond the regulations of employed work, which indicates corporate agreement processes, these necessary agreement procedures have undergone little empirical investigation until now. This qualitative [...]

englischThis study is the first to place development policy volunteer services in the context of fundamental social theory. Using the theory of reciprocity, it identifies the deeper levels of logic on which development policy volunteer services are based. In doing so, it analyses ambiguous and [...]

englischOf late, media coverage of anxiety and insecurity proliferating among the German population has been considerable. However, the social sciences have only recently explored these tendencies more profoundly, e.g. with respect to fears about social decline among the middle classes or [...]

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge des Soziologen Rudi Schmiede aus den letzten vier Jahrzehnten, die der theoretischen und empirischen Analyse des Wandels von Arbeit und Beschäftigung vor dem Hintergrund von Umbrüchen in der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise gewidmet sind. Besonderes Gewicht liegt [...]

englischIn the 2020s, the number of the over 60s in the workforce will continue to increase. The book ‘Arbeit und Altern 2020’ (Work and Ageing 2020) takes stock of the state of knowledge on work and age and ageing, and on progress in the areas of work design and human resources. It presents [...]

englischWork and play are often regarded as opposites: play as people’s freedom and ability to spend their time as they choose, and work as being subordinate to it as a means to an end. As play can be repeated without any serious repercussions, this has earned it the reputation of lacking [...]

englischDigitalisation is creating new challenges and opportunities for the world of work and labour policy. The contributions in this volume discuss key developments in this field and labour policy strategies for dealing with the digitalisation of work: the shifting of spatial and temporal [...]

englischJudging from both political and academic discussions and general practices among the employed, we can conceive the organisation of working times as being scattered into heterogeneous ‘landscapes’ of working hours. Empirical evidence on employment in bigger enterprises is much more [...]

englisch‘Augmented Ergonomics’ is a synthesis of social sciences and engineering approaches. It enriches the field of human factors and ergonomics in both theory and practice. Human work is characterised by continuous changes in organisation and technology. The increasing pace of change in the [...]

englischAgainst the backdrop of the discussion on Industry 4.0, this book investigates the car industry’s experiences with automation so far and its impact on work. The book’s examination of developments at Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen over the past 100 years generates surprising insights into [...]