Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Person
Martin Krzywdzinski is Director at the Weizenbaum Institute, Head of the Research Group “Globalization, Work and Production” at the WZB Social Science Center Berlin and Professor of International Labor Relations at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. Martin received his doctorate and habilitation from the Free University of Berlin.
His research focuses on technological change at work from a sociological perspective, and in particular on automation processes and their relationship to changes in work organization, skill requirements, and employment structures. His research has an international comparative orientation. Martin is a member of the Program Committee of the DFG Priority Program “Digitalization of the World of Work”, the Steering Committee of the GERPISA automotive research network, and the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board. 3. Martin has a long record of international research projects. His recent research focuses on the development of the platform economy and working conditions on platforms, the digitalization and automation of industrial work processes, and processes of negotiation and co-determination of technological change in the workplace.
Positions at Weizenbaum Institut
Member of the Board & Director, Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator (PI) since 15 September 2022
Research Focus: Organizing Knowledge
Research Group: Working with Artificial Intelligence
Principal Investigator (PI) until 14 September 2022
Research Group: Working in Highly Automated Digital-Hybrid Processes
Committees and functions
Member of the Steering Committee of the DFG Priority Program “Digitalization of the Working Worlds”, Member in the Research Advisory Board Industry 4.0, Member in the Advisory Board "Future of Work" of the IG Metall, Member of the International Steering Committe of the Automotive Research Network GERPISA
Fields of research
Sociology of work, digitalization of work, global value chains
Research Focus: Organising Knowledge
Projects
Selection
Since 2020
Fairwork (gefördert vom Bundesministerium für internationale Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung)
2020-2023
Automatisierung und Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt in Folge der COVID19-Krise (gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales)
2020-2021
Skills, Artificial intelligence and Labour (gefördert von der Volkswagen Stiftung)
Seit 2017 Promotionskolleg "Gute Arbeit" (gefördert von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
Miscellaneous
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-6616
Martin Krzywdzinski on Google Scholar
Contact
Publications
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