By Nurçin İleri. This essay centres on a series of photographs, which I first came across at an auction in November 2020. These black and white images depict Istanbul’s first urban scale power plant, the Silahtarağa campus and extension of the grid to the city in the early 1910s.
By André Weißenfels. Upward social mobility through education is a promise that has captured the minds of generations all across the globe. It has motivated and continues to motivate people to plan their lives around formal education and to strive for degrees in the hope these might offer a desirable future. But what if the promise turns out to be false?
By Markus Heckel | In my field of research, which combines Economics and Japanese Studies (trained at the University of Bonn), it soon became clear that eventually I would have to deal with cross-country comparisons.
By Megan Maruschke Social scientists tend to talk about globalization as a challenge to nation states; its threat, especially to developing states, is often illustrated in special economic zones, export...
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 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...
By Martin Krzywdzinski The current crisis is having a massive impact on the economy and the world of work, and we can expect it to accelerate the structural change that...
Alexandru Leşanu is the 2019-2020 Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellow for Transregional Studies in the framework of Prisma Ukraїna – Research Network Eastern Europe, a research program of the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale...
In this talk entitled “Portable Labour Rights for Migrant Workers in North America”, Xóchitl Bada looks at “glocalized” campaigns for international migrant workers and their portability in linking local worker...
A Response to “Migration and Mobility” at the Annual Conference 2018 of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, “Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval”, Berlin, 20-21...
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