"Workers" in the West German "society of jobholders". On the transformation of a pivotal category of societal knowledge "after the boom".

西德“从业者协会”中的“工人”。

• 批准号: 290312494
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Anselm Doering-Manteuffel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/290312494?language=en
• 关键词: Workers; West; German; society; jobholders

For more than one hundred years, the category "worker" has been an important part of societal knowledge. In spite of being context-dependent, it has proved sufficiently abstract to enable protagonists to reflect on "society". Now, "after the boom", "worker" has lost this significance. Concerning the Federal Republic of Germany, the decisive transition seems to have taken place between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. Even though there were efforts to update the concept of "worker", the notion of a "society of jobholders" appeared as an alternative instrument of analysis. Hence, the purpose of the project at hand is to examine concrete negotiations and conflicting interpretations regarding "worker" by scrutinizing which protagonist - under which circumstances - opted for "worker" or "jobholder", and what could be gained or lost by the respective decision.The project consists of five case studies. First, three working-class movies, co-produced by the WDR, allow for disclosing if and how the concept of a "society of jobholders" was a necessary condition for "worker" to be turned into a cultural ressource. Conversely, the second case study shows how "worker" became a problem for the "jobholder" unions of the Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund at a time when the West German labour market and economy underwent structural changes. Two studies will analyze how "worker" could be legally transformed into "jobholder" by industrial agreements and federal law respectively. Finally, one case study will be dedicated to the "Research Institute on Worker Education". It will discuss the ontological problem if education could be instrumental in promoting "workers" to the status of "non-workers".The project takes the social constructedness as well as the complexity of the "end of the worker" seriously. It seeks to contribute both to the methodological renewal of labour history and to the political and cultural history of the Federal Republic. Finally, it aims at scrutinizing central premises of the "after the boom" approach.

一百多年来，“工人”这一类别一直是社会知识的重要组成部分。尽管依赖于背景，但它已被证明足够抽象，使主角能够反思“社会”。如今，“景气过后”，“工人”已经失去了这个意义。关于德国的联邦共和国，决定性的转变似乎发生在1960年代末至1980年代中期。尽管有人努力更新“工人”的概念，但“从业人员社会”的概念似乎是一种替代的分析工具。因此，本研究课题的目的是，通过考察在何种情况下，哪一方选择了“工人”或“从业者”，以及各自的决定可能带来什么样的利益或损失，来研究关于“工人”的具体谈判和相互矛盾的解释。首先，由《世界发展报告》联合制作的三部工人阶级电影揭示了“职业者社会”的概念是否以及如何成为“工人”成为文化资源的必要条件。相反，第二个案例研究表明，在西德劳动力市场和经济发生结构性变化的时候，“工人”如何成为德国Gewerkschaftsbund“在职人员”工会的一个问题。两项研究将分别分析“工人”如何通过劳资协议和联邦法律合法地转变为“就业者”。最后，一个案例研究将致力于“工人教育研究所”。本研究将探讨教育是否能促进“工人”到“非工人”地位的本体论问题，并重视“工人的终结”的社会建构性与复杂性。它旨在为劳动史的方法更新以及联邦共和国的政治和文化史做出贡献。最后，它旨在审查“繁荣之后”方法的核心前提。