In the seminar “Labor Markets in Transition”, the transformation of the postwar employment regime
which was characterized by a standard employment relationship based on stable industrial jobs and permanent contracts tracts will be analysed. The focus of the current innovation-centred, globally linked, digitalised knowledge society of the present is no longer on the industrial production of standardized goods, but on the flexible provision of knowledge-based products and services by flexibly, sometimes precariously, employed persons. In this seminar, three facets of these changing labour markets and employment relations will be considered.