Reconstruction and restoration: the legacies of post-war German Industrial Sociology

Holm-Detlev Köhler
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Holm-Detlev Köhler: University of Oviedo, Spain

Work, Employment & Society, 2016, vol. 30, issue 6, 1017-1029

Abstract: The article reconstructs the re-birth of Industrial Sociology in Germany after the Second World War in a comparative perspective. Although sharing the main context conditions and maintaining a constant and fluent exchange with their colleagues in other countries, the German intellectual traditions and specific institutional context motivated several particular interests and perspectives that shape a distinct German Industrial Sociology until today. The dominance of qualitative in-depth research, the focus on the emancipative potentials in high-skill-based work organization, the cooperative industrial relations tradition and the constant attempts to link employment studies with general social theory on modern capitalist society and social change characterize German Industrial Sociology. The richness of distinct national institutional settings for comparative social research on employment regimes may be another lesson to be learned from critical reconstruction of labour sociology.

Keywords: Fordism; Industrial Sociology; sociology in Germany; sociology of the firm; sociology of work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017016638988

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