The contributions in #DossierCorona #workingfutures are part of the series “Wiko Briefs – Working Futures in Corona Times” of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. The authors are members of the transnational network “Working Futures” or Fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg.
By Lena Hipp After more than three months of working from home and school closures, many Germans are currently experiencing a return to what we considered “normal” before the outbreak...
By Marianne Braig, Léa Renard, Nicola Schalkowski, and Theresa Wobbe The current hygienic and economic crisis affects work relationships and organization in various ways. The virus not only prompted us...
By Constance Perrin-Joly In the spring of 2020, the coronavirus in Africa seems to be shaping up more as a social and economic crisis than as a health crisis, due...
By Felix Sieker and Anke Hassel Six weeks into the Corona crisis, the German department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof announced that it would close up to half its stores,...
By Sasha Disko The Sars-Coronavirus 2 pandemic has thrown a stark light on global inequalities, themselves outcomes of the centuries-long accretion of exploitative relationships based on historically constructed binaries of...
By Bruce Kogut Covid-19 came as a shock to almost everyone, except for the many elites responsible for the task of preparation. Who should be surprised that pandemics are a...
By David Stark The coronavirus pandemic is witness to a great proliferation of two types of tests. The first type is testing – new medical diagnostic tests as well as...
By Michel Lallement One of the effects of the pandemic crisis ascribable to Covid-19 has been the home detention of almost half of humanity. The eventual onset of such a...
By Bénédicte Zimmermann Changes in the sphere of work have been fostered over the last thirty years by a continuous process of adapting companies and their employees to the demands...
By Jürgen Kocka As long as we do not know when and how the Corona crisis will end, its social consequences are impossible to predict. These consequences will be different...
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