Volume 76 (2023), Edition 5

Contrary to a number of predictions, low-skilled work – in the sense of routine activities in manufacturing and services – is showing remarkable stability in the German economy. Despite possible digital substitution in Industry 4.0 and...

Public administration departments are making intense efforts to improve their work by integrating digital technologies and tools. This article analyses the importance of integrated software solutions (case software, electronic case records) for the...

Platform work comprises paid activities that are mediated and transacted via internet platforms. While digital results can be transferred online in location-independent crowdworking, the location-based work of the gig economy, such as driving and...

The article shows that newer subsymbolic AI has similarities to indirect control of work in its mode of operation and is also accompanied by latent structuring effects. In this context, the concepts of subsymbolic AI currently in focus differ from...

The digital transformation of the world of work since the mid-2010s was discussed early on with far-reaching hopes and fears for changes in gender relations. In the meantime, various empirical studies covering a broad range of questions have become...

Digital transformation processes go hand in hand with a continuous change in skilled work across all sectors. In view of the dynamics of the developments, the qualification requirements of the future cannot be precisely determined. In this article,...

The article analyses the patterns of action works councils develop in dealing with digitalisation processes and the role trade union activation projects can play in this process, which is aimed at improving the competences of works councils in the...