Klaus Dörre & Nicole Mayer-Ahuja 
Capitalism and Labor [PDF ebook] 
Towards Critical Perspectives

Contents
Introduction
Theorizing Capitalism and Labor: Challenges for Sociology 11
Klaus Dörre, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja and Dieter Sauer
I. The Sociology of Work and the Critique of Capitalism
Sociology of Work and the Critique of Capitalism:
Mistakes, Limits, Possibilities 35
Christoph Deutschmann
Work-More than Employment?
Critique of Capitalism and the Sociology of Work 44
Sarah Nies and Dieter Sauer
Landnahme through Tests:
A Useful Concept for the Sociology of Work 71
Klaus Dörre and Tine Haubner
II. What Do Theories of Capitalism Contribute to the Sociology of Work?
Diverging Views on Capitalism and Work: How Feminist Analyses of Capitalism Relate to the Theory of Capitalism and the Sociology of Work 115
Brigitte Aulenbacher
The Theory of Regulation and Labor Policy 128
Hans-Jürgen Bieling
Subalternity and the Social Division of Labor:
Sociology of Work meets Materialist State Theory 143
Stefanie Hürtgen and Jens Wissel
Work and Critical Theory: An Unfinished Project 157
David Strecker
Capitalist Society:
A View from the Theory of Functional Differentiation 171
Uwe Schimank
Financial Market Capitalism or Financial Market Rationality? 185
Jürgen Kädtler
Re-Constructing the Future
Flexibilization and the Temporality of Capitalism 201
Hajo Holst
III. What Does the Sociology of Work Contribute to the Critique of Capitalism?
Serfdom-(Lost) Love’s Labor-Service Industries:
Services from Feudal Times to Late Capitalism 227
Cornelia Klinger
Work and Reproduction 241
Kerstin Jürgens
Labor, Insecurity, Informality 257
Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
Work and Subjectivity 269
Stephan Voswinkel
Informatization as Force of Production: The Informatized Mode of Production as Basis of a New Phase of Capitalism 283
Andreas Boes and Tobias Kämpf
Capitalist Work Organization and Self-activity 302
Harald Wolf
Work and Consumption:
A New Perspective for Economic Democracy 318
Jörn Lamla
Work and Sustainability 335
Stefanie Hiß
IV. Theory of Capitalism and Critique of Capitalism
Growth Critique as Critique of Capitalism 349
Brigit Mahnkopf
Work and Alienation 368
Hartmut Rosa
Social Critique and Trade Unions
Outlines of a Troubled Relationship 378
Hans-Jürgen Urban
Work and Societal Legitimation:
What a Normative Sociology of Work and Industrial Relations Can Contribute to the Theory of Capitalism 400
Wolfgang Menz
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Towards Critical Perspectives 415
Klaus Dörre, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja and Dieter Sauer
Authors 427
Index 431

Klaus Dörre ist Professor am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Jena. Nicole Mayer-Ahuja ist Professorin am SOFI der Universität Göttingen. Dieter Sauer ist Professor am ISF München. Volker Wittke (1957 – 2012) war Professor am SOFI an der Universität Göttingen.