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In recent weeks, various reviews of the „Matrix of Labour“ have been published, which we would like to draw your attention to:

Peter Kern

• at Glanz & Elend: »Travail attractif« (06.10.2023)
• at Faust-Kultur: Matrix of living labour, reloaded (09.10.2023)
• at Gegenblende (DGB): The Good Work Manifesto (12.10.2023)

Klaus Lang

• in Sozialismus.de issue 1/24, double review of Axel Honneth „Der arbeitende Souverän“ and IGZA „Matrix der Arbeit“: Prosperity for all and liberated work: clear goal - difficult path (04.01.2024)

Marc Amlinger and Cornelius Markert have published an article in the IAB Forum entitled „History and future of labour: End or half-time of the great productivity leap?“.

To the article (04.01.2024)

Christian Kellermann and Cornelius Markert have developed a Contribution to „AI in the world of work“ published in „Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte“ 42/2023, the supplement to the weekly newspaper „Das Parlament“ published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

Link (13.10.2023)

On 25 September 2023, the habilitation thesis „Times in Germany 1879-1919 - Concepts, Codes, Conflicts“ by Caroline Rothauge was published. She was awarded the Eichstätt University Society's prize for the best habilitation in 2022.

Carloline Rothauge was an IGZA Fellow at the re:work Institute at Humboldt University. She currently holds the professorship for 19th century German and European history at the University of Hamburg.

IGZA Fellows Christian Kellermann and Tobias Kämpf were appointed Professors of Social Sciences, Labour and Digitalisation at the University of Labour in Frankfurt in October 2023.

Christian Kellermann was Managing Director of IGZA from 2017 to 2019, held a professorship in economics with a focus on social policy at the University of Applied Sciences (THW) in Berlin and has been a Senior Researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 2021.

Tobias Kämpf was a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) in Munich for many years and a private lecturer at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In the 2019/20 winter semester, he held the Chair of Sociology of Digital Transformation at Ruhr University Bochum. He is also co-editor of the journal „Arbeit“.

Link to the University of Labour (01.10.2023)

In September 2023, we presented our „Matrix of Labour“ to a good 70 interested parties from academia, politics and trade unions at the IG Metall building in Berlin. „A great work,“ said economic and social historian Jürgen Kocka, praising the seven volumes of analyses, theses, statistics and graphics. Another guest speaker, Andrea Nahles, Chairwoman of the Executive Board of the Federal Employment Agency, pointed out that the studies on automation and productivity are so interesting because they represent key factors for the future of work and prosperity.

A report on the event, the presentation slides, pictures and a look at the seven volumes can be found on the IGZA homepage.

to the event review

The 7-volume „Matrix of Labour“ is now available in bookshops.

Further information

In November 2022, the Museum of Labour in Hamburg zwide conference of the German Labour History Association (GLHA) took place. In 16 presentations and a panel discussion, around 70 participants discussed the following topics Topic „Labour/Time“ on the relationship between „labour“ and „time“ from a historical and sociological perspective, with a focus on the period from the 17th century to the present day.

As part of the event, the IGZA presented its time table concept and exhibited five time tables. Jürgen Schmidt and Cornelius Markert were also represented with a contribution on „The development of working life from 1800 to 2000“.

Review of the GLHA (last accessed 15/03/2023)

Conference report on the HsozKult portal (15.03.2023)

On 20 October 2022, a good 50 interested people from academia, trade unions, politics and guests of the Frankfurt Book Fair came to the House of Labour for the presentation of the book „Matrix der Arbeit - Materialien zur Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit“, which will soon be published by J.H.W. Dietz Verlag. After the presentation of central theses and content, an interesting discussion developed about the future framework conditions of work and long lines of development of human societies.

The review of the event is now online: Link