The current volume 64 of the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte (2024) contains a very well-founded and readable review by Jürgen Kocka on the matrix of labour.
Long-term history of labour and its productivity
Review essay on: IGZA (ed.), Matrix der Arbeit. Materials on the history and future of labour
Jürgen Kocka | 455-464
On 30 October, at the invitation of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Federal Employment Agency, Marc Amlinger and Cornelius Markert spoke at the IAB Colloquium event series presented the IGZA working paper #5 - Germany 2070: Labour market, demography and productivity.
Together with Andrea Nahles (Chairwoman of the BA Executive Board), Prof Bernd Fitzenberger (Director of the IAB) and other labour market experts discussed the central theses of the IGZA paper.
The working paper presents scenarios that can be used to cope with demographic change. The decisive contribution to the solution can only result from an increase in labour productivity. The conditions for a socio-ecologically sustainable innovation and productivity initiative are therefore outlined.
The working paper is freely available for download: IGZA Working Paper #5
The colloquium was followed by the opening of the Travelling exhibition on the Labour Matrix at the premises of the Federal Employment Agency by Andrea Nahles and the IGZA.
The Travelling exhibition of the IGZA is from 30.10. to 27.11.2024 on the premises of the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg as a guest.
Federal Employment Agency
Regensburger Str. 104
90478 Nuremberg
On 22 October, the IGZA was invited by the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture of the Working World (Dortmund) and the History of the Ruhr Foundation (Bochum) at the Haus der Geschichte. Dr Cornelius Markert will present the matrix of the work as part of the „Erlesenes“ series.
Book presentation as part of the „Erlesenes“ series“
Matrix of Work. Lecture and discussion with Cornelius Markert
22 October 2024, 6 pm
Moderation: Arnold Maxwill, Fritz Hüser Institute
House of the History of the Ruhr Area
Library of the Ruhr Area
Clemensstr. 17-19
44789 Bochum
Free admission, no registration required.
House of the History of the Ruhr: Announcement
(last accessed: 15.10.2024)
The 7 volumes of the 'Matrix of Labour' (2023) are now available to download free of charge:
Herbert Schaaff has written a review of the Matrix of Labour. This was published in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft:
Economy and Society 49 (4): 103-110
In June 2024, a short version of the »Matrix of Labour« will be published with the title: "Mitten im dunklen Tal - Am Ende Wohlstand und Freiheit?".
While the seven volumes of the materials primarily present the specific epochs of work, this abridged version aims to link the historically broad view more closely with the perspectives of the next 100 years. However, the focus here is also on correctly summarising the empirical evidence from the various research fields of archaeology, anthropology, economics, history and the social sciences - in particular the common thread of productivity development.
24 Euro, 450 pages, J.H.W. Dietz Verlag
ISBN 978-3-8012-4296-1
From 5 June, the IGZA's travelling exhibition on the Matrix of Work will be on display at the University of Labour for four weeks.
Opening: 5 June, 5 p.m. - University of Labour, Frankfurt am Main
A digital version of the exhibition will be made available at igza.org at the same time.
At the invitation of the Federal Association of Personnel Managers (BPM), the IGZA will be represented at the Personnel Management Congress 2024 (20/21 July, Berlin) with time tables and a presentation entitled »New productivity and the success cycle of sustainable personnel management« by Cornelius Markert.
PMK 2024 programme / PMK Homepage
(as at 12/03/2024)
A review of the matrix of Peter Kern's work has been published in »Jungle World«.
The matrix of work and how to free yourself from it (08/02/2024)