Von Konflikt ohne Partnerschaft zu Partnerschaft ohne Konflikt: Industrielle Beziehungen in Deutschland

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Erschienen in Industrielle Beziehungen, 23 (1), 47-60

Der Aufsatz betrachtet das Lebenswerk von Walther Müller-Jentsch als wichtigsten deutschen Forscher der letzten Jahrzehnte über kollektive Arbeitsbeziehungen und das „deutsche Modell“ der Sozialpartnerschaft. Im Mittelpunkt steht das von Müller-Jentsch entwickelte Konzept der „Konfliktpartnerschaft“ als Beschreibung des derzeitigen Stands der industriellen Beziehungen in Deutschland vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Geschichte seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts.

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Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Rainer Hampp Verlags.

Can there be peace in Europe?

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Interview for Liberal Culture, January 12, 2016. Polish version here.

Has Chancellor Merkel made a mistake when she opened the door for migrants without first consulting it with other European countries? Can this decision cost her the role of the European leader?

Like all other European leaders Merkel thinks first and foremost about her own domestic politics. Most of the migrants that had become stuck in the central station of Budapest wanted to go to Germany. The German public had been outraged about the French and the British leaving thousands of migrants stranded in Calais, at the entrance of the Channel tunnel. After Merkel had invited the Budapest migrants to Germany, perhaps also to clear the way for a coalition with the Greens in two years, it turned out there were millions more that wanted to come. At this point the German government began to look for a “European solution”. No European government consults with other European governments when it sees its own vital political interests at stake. Weiterlesen →

Politics in the interregnum

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Appeared in ROAR Magazine, December 23, 2015

Professor Streeck, to begin with, could you briefly explain why you believe that capitalism and democracy are in conflict with one another? Is this tension an inherent one, or do you consider it to be a more recent phenomenon?

Democracy: one person, one vote; capitalism: one dollar, one vote. The order of equality vs. the order of egoism (John Dunn). Capitalists as a permanent minority in a majoritarian democratic polity — and democracy ending “at the factory gates”. Social justice vs. the justice of markets. It’s an old story with unending permutations, discussed again and again since the nineteenth century, by legions of scholars and political leaders. Weiterlesen →

The social condition of critical social science

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Presented at the conference „Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century“ organized by the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), June 15-16, 2015

The presentation will attempt to define critical social science and explore its relationship to practical politics and collective action. It will then examine the different roles contemporary society offers to critical social scientists, after the demise of the figure of “organic intellectual”. It will focus on the situation of a critical social science cut off from political power and influence and under pressure from neoliberal “reforms” of academic scholarship and teaching. It also considers the need for critical social science to assert itself in a pluralist public governed by market laws against the white noise produced by omnipresent mass media, both conventional and new.

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Wachsende Wirtschaft, schrumpfende Familien?

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Beitrag der Projektgruppe „Soziale Bedingungen und Folgen flexibler Arbeitsmärkte“ zum Institutstag des Max-Planck-Institutes für Gesellschaftsforschung, 5.-6. November 2015

Einleitung (Wolfgang Streeck)
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Unsicherheiten und ihre Folgen für das Geburtenverhalten (Annina T. Hering)

Viele Kinder, keine Arbeit: Mütter an der Armutsgrenze (Sara Weckemann)

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Conversation on States and Markets (with Marion Fourcade)

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ASA Economic Sociology Section Newsletter, Fall 2015, pp. 10-16

A perennial question in economic sociology is the relationship between the state and economy, which most economic sociologists conceptualize as co-constitutive. How would you characterize your own take on the relationship between the state and economy, and states and markets? What are some unexplored questions or problems we should be discussing/studying? Where should future research turn?

Wolfgang Streeck: I prefer to speak of either “the state and the market” or “the state and capitalism”. “The market” is shorthand for a mode of governance (free contracts at prices set by supply and demand) while “capitalism” refers to a particular power structure in society (private ownership of the means of production, private accumulation of capital). ”The state and the market” refers to the multifaceted relationship between two modes of allocation (distribution), whereas “the state and capitalism” refers to the equally multifaceted relationship between two different kinds of power (political and economic), or between citizenship and property rights, etc. (…)

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Multimorbidität

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Besprechung von: Tomáš Sedláček / Oliver Tanzer: Lilith und die Dämonen des Kapitals – Die Ökonomie auf Freuds Couch. Hanser Verlag, München 2015.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13. Oktober 2015, S. 23

Manchmal kann einem sogar der Kapitalismus leidtun. Andererseits braucht, wer solche Feinde hat, nun wirklich keine Freunde. Tomáš Sedláček ist spezialisiert auf die Verfertigung von Abhandlungen über das Abgründige im kapitalistischen Wirtschaftsleben, in denen er seine Leser unter anderem mit einem end- und bodenlosen klassisch-literarischen Zitatenschatz traktiert. Zugleich ist er (nebenher?) „Chief Macroeconomic Strategist“ einer tschechischen Bank und war nach eigenem Bekunden „Wirtschaftsberater“ von Präsidenten und Ministern in der Tschechischen Republik nach der Wende zum – Kapitalismus! Ein Mensch in seinem Widerspruch? (Weiterlesen auf süddeutsche.de)