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

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 a...

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Published in:Work, employment and society employment and society, 2016-12, Vol.30 (6), p.1017-1029
Main Author: Kohler, Holm-Detlev
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Childbirth & labor
Debates and controversies
Dominance
Employment
Germany
Industrial sociology
Industrialized nations
Labor market
Labor relations
Modern society
Post World War II period
Reconstruction
Social change
Social research
Social theories
Sociology
Sociology of work
Traditions
War
Work organization
Work skills
World War II
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0950-0170
1469-8722
DOI:10.1177/0950017016638988