Work in times of the pandemic - Risk politics and dynamic boundary management of work under the conditions of SARS-CoV-2

疫情期间的工作——SARS-CoV-2 条件下的风险政治和动态工作边界管理

• 批准号: 458412033
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Fritz Böhle
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Forschungseinheit für Sozioökonomie der Arbeits- und Berufswelt
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/458412033?language=en
• 关键词: Work; times; pandemic; Risk; politics

The Corona pandemic has a far-reaching impact on the world of work. Physical distancing measures are changing work organization and work practices, accelerating the digital transformation of the world of work. But often the significance of informal and bodily elements of work is overlooked. A considerable amount of work activities requires bodily presence to a varying extent, impeding a total digitization and increased technicality. Manifold controversies are sparked by the conflict of objectives between physical distancing and risks for work quality due to loss of corporeal/bodily and social closeness.This project proceeds from the assumption that boundaries and links between physical and technological dimensions of work have to be re-configured because of the Corona crisis, which is associated with the emergence of risk competitions. Modern risk society is challenged to find an adequate handling of the uncertainties and conflicts emerging in times of the pandemic, and to establish a risk governance for boundary shifts in physical/social matters.The project investigates the changes, areas of tension and forms of governance resulting from this reconfigurations, on the basis of comparative empirical case studies in the fields of software engineering, SME in manufacturing industries, cultural institutions (theatre) and health care system. This permits to observe the change of work in various sectors that are distinguished by the dimensions of degree of increased technicality and relevance of embodiment/corporeality for work organization and practice.Central questions to be answered by the project are: Which changes of work practices are driven forward by the corona crisis? In what way are bodily and technological dimensions of work re-configured and re-linked? Which conflicts emerge in the area of tension between the risk of virus infection and the risk of impairing work quality through physical distancing? How are these risk conflicts negotiated on the individual, organizational, and political level? By means of which regulation practices and governance forms do organizations and political institutions respond to the challenges? Which best practices can be identified to deal with areas of tension and risk conflicts?Beyond an analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 consequences, the project intends to improve the understanding how pandemics generally influence the world of work, contributing to develop preventive strategies of risk governance in times of (pandemic) crises. In addition, the project findings will serve to further develop sociological approaches to the change of work and the governance of society. Within the project, expertise in sociology of work is combined with perspectives from Science and Technology Studies and governance studies.

电晕大流行对工作世界产生了深远的影响。保持身体距离的措施正在改变工作组织和工作实践，加速工作世界的数字化转型。但工作中非正式和体力因素的重要性常常被忽视。大量的工作活动在不同程度上需要身体在场，这阻碍了全面数字化和技术性的提高。由于身体和社会亲密性的丧失，物理距离与工作质量风险之间的目标冲突引发了多种争议。该项目的假设是，由于新冠危机，工作的物理和技术维度之间的界限和联系必须重新配置，而新冠危机与风险竞争的出现有关。现代风险社会面临的挑战是如何妥善处理疫情期间出现的不确定性和冲突，并建立针对物理/社会问题边界转移的风险治理。该项目基于软件工程、制造业中小型企业、文化机构（剧院）和医疗保健系统等领域的比较实证案例研究，研究了这种重新配置带来的变化、紧张领域和治理形式。这使得我们能够观察各个部门的工作变化，这些变化的特点是技术性程度的提高以及工作组织和实践的具体化/实体性的相关性。该项目要回答的核心问题是：新冠危机推动了工作实践的哪些变化？工作的身体和技术维度以何种方式重新配置和重新联系？病毒感染风险与保持身体距离而损害工作质量的风险之间的紧张关系中出现了哪些冲突？这些风险冲突如何在个人、组织和政治层面上进行协商？组织和政治机构通过哪些监管实践和治理形式应对挑战？可以确定哪些最佳实践来处理紧张和风险冲突领域？除了分析 SARS-CoV-2 后果之外，该项目还旨在提高对流行病如何影响工作世界的理解，有助于制定（流行病）危机时期风险治理的预防策略。此外，项目研究结果将有助于进一步发展工作变革和社会治理的社会学方法。在该项目中，工作社会学的专业知识与科学技术研究和治理研究的观点相结合。