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

一百多年来，“工人”这个范畴一直是社会知识的重要组成部分。尽管它依赖于语境，但它已被证明是足够抽象的，使主人公能够反思“社会”。现在，“繁荣之后”，“工人”已经失去了这种意义。关于德意志联邦共和国，决定性的过渡似乎发生在1960年代末和1980年代中期之间。尽管有人努力更新“工人”的概念，但“就业社会”的概念作为另一种分析工具出现了。因此，手头项目的目的是审查具体的谈判和关于“工人”的相互矛盾的解释，审查哪个主角-在什么情况下-选择了“工人”或“工作人员”，以及各自的决定可能得到或失去什么。该项目包括五个案例研究。首先，由《世界发展报告》（WDR）联合制作的三部工人阶级电影，揭示了“工人社会”的概念是否以及如何成为“工人”转化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经历结构性变化之际，“工人”如何成为德国工业联盟（Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund）“就业”工会的一个问题。两项研究将分别分析如何通过工业协议和联邦法律将“工人”合法地转化为“工作持有人”。最后，一个案例研究将献给“工人教育研究所”。它将讨论教育是否有助于将“工人”提升到“非工人”地位的本体论问题。该项目重视社会建构性以及“工人终结”的复杂性。它力求对劳动史的方法论更新以及联邦共和国的政治和文化史作出贡献。最后，本文旨在审视“后繁荣”方法的核心前提。

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.