As the influence of labor unions declines in many industrialized nations, particularly the United States, the influence of workers has decreased. Because of the need for greater involvement of workers in changing production systems, as well as frustration with existing structures of workplace...

The paper presents some of the ideas underlying the current research program of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG). It begins with a discussion of how the institute’s programmatic orientation has evolved since it was founded in 1984. Programmatic change over the years...

Europe will not turn into a federal state. As a consequence citizenship in Europe will remain nationally based. Due to the joint commitment of European Union member states to the freedoms of a common market, national citizenship regimes have become accountable to supranational rules, obliging...

Der Beitrag thematisiert zunächst die Rahmenbedingungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und die spezifische Krise des deutschen Beschäftigungssystems (stabile Koinzidenz hoher Arbeitslosigkeit mit einer niedrigen Erwerbsquote). Ziel der Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik müsste es sein, eine auch...