Works
- Rationalisierung von unten: Arbeiter als Gestalter betrieblicher Rationalisierung bei VW, Arbeit-Bewegung-Geschichte: Zeitschrift für historische Studien 18(1), 111 to 126, 2019
In Organizational Structures
Known for
History of the West German Humanization of Working Life program at Volkswagen
Ideas
Rationalization from below. In a 1975 to 1977 group work project at Volkswagen, workers acted as rationalizers of their own groups, cutting costs, debating the foreman's post, and pushing out weaker members, which partly undid the freedoms group work was meant to bring. Caveat: One project; German text, no translation.