Industrielle Beziehungen

The article focuses on the current shifts in the balance of power in the first Bundesliga of women‘s football. The first part examines the changes in the organisational composition and their causes. The second part deals with the medium- and...

The logistics sector is known for flexible employment strategies and their precarious consequences. In the literature, the economic dynamics of the industry are often discussed as a key explanatory factor. This article delineates a new...

The social market economy, originally conceived as an ordoliberal model for a competitive economic system, is now widely regarded both domestically and internationally as Germany's fundamental economic framework. It is credited with driving...

In a critical discussion of industrial relations and care research the article addresses labour conflicts “alongside and “below” publicly visible labour disputes in care work, using the example of residential child and youth care. The focus is...

In this article innovations and associated tensions over the expansion of mobile work in the wake of the COVID-19-Crisis are analysed from the perspective of work councils in German industrial sectors. It addresses the question to what extent works...

In studies of labour relations in Germany, racism has only rarely been analysed. Previous analyses focus on the principles of competition, cooperation, performance or exploitation in the world of work. In contrast, this article argues that it is...

The article deals with workplace co-determination in Germany during the Corona crisis. Using a perspective combining a political economy of codetermination and the political culture of exchange relations, the relationship between employers and works...

This article sheds light on the industrial relations in the cultural industries with a particular focus on the social field of the public theater. It provides empirical findings on labor politics within the cultural sector by focusing on recent...