6th Annual Conference
The sixth conference took place on October 5 and 6, 2023, in the X building at Bielefeld University. Under the theme “Transformations of labour – a challenge for socio-economic research, education and teaching?”, participants discussed current changes in the world of work in the context of multiple socioeconomic crises. The conference was organized by the AG Sozialwissenschaften and Their Didactics Working Group at Bielefeld University in cooperation with the AS*EER.
Invitation Text
Many of the challenges that societies are facing in the context of changes to labour are not historically new, but a number of them are becoming more politically and academically explosive as a result of the current multiple socio-economic crises. This is illustrated first and foremost by debates surrounding the concept of labour itself. These include pleas for an expanded concept of labour that also analytically encompasses forms of non-employment work (care work, voluntary work, etc.). In this way, perspectives that have been discussed for some time, such as the question of the social embedding of the concept of labour and its connection to the meaning and lifeworld orientation of employees, are strengthened. At the same time, general socio-economic dynamics such as globalisation, financialisation, digitalisation and migration movements are intensifying, which can have consequences for the labour market and working conditions and increase fragmentation of the labour market (shortage of skilled workers on the one hand, precarisation on the other). In the course of current debates, it is also becoming apparent that new or changed forms of participation are being used in response to experiences of crisis in the world of work, challenging institutionalised forms of co-determination on the one hand and innovating them on the other (e.g. ‘platform trade unions’).
The aim of the 2023 GSÖBW annual conference in Bielefeld is to promote interdisciplinary dialogue. Above all, however, joint research perspectives of subject science and subject didactics on the topics of work, the world of work and vocational orientation are to be explored.
Thursday, Oktober 5, 2023
until
Friday, Oktober 6, 2023
Host:
Speaker:
Sophie Schmitt
Amrei Bahr
Theresa Steffestun
Daniela Gottschlich