Christoph Koehler

Christoph Köhler (born July 9, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist .

Köhler studied sociology, economics and political science at the University of Frankfurt as well as the University of Chicago and Wayne State University in Detroit . He completed his habilitation in 1993 and was visiting professor at the University of Málaga from 1992 to 1994 . From 1995 to 2016 he was a professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Jena . His work focuses on the structure and dynamics of the labor market, development tendencies of employment stability and employment risks in East and West Germany, company employment systems and labor market segmentation in international comparison, labor market flexibility, employment risks and social security. Christoph Köhler was a (student) activist in the 68s.

Fonts (selection)

• Work as a commodity. On the theory of flexible employment systems , transcript, Bielefeld 2012 [Ed. together with Alexandra Krause].
• Open and closed employment systems. Determinates, Risks, and Side Effects. VS-Verlag Wiesbaden 2008 (edited together with Michael Grotheer, Alexandrea Krause, Ina Krause, Tim Schröder, Olaf Struck).
• Changing employment stability? Empirical and theoretical findings . Rainer Hampp Verlag, Munich 2005, 2nd edition (edited together with Olaf Struck).

Web links

• Chair website at Friedrich Schiller University Jena with a detailed list of publications ( Memento from July 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• "Bourgeois to the bone" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 2007, pp. 74–96 ( online - October 29, 2007 , Spiegel interview with excerpts from: I can't get no - a couple of 68ers meet and do their accounts by Irmela Hannover and Cordt Schnibben . Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne).