Gerd Peter

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Gerd Peter (born October 27, 1941 in Wickenrode / Kassel district ) is a German labor researcher, political scientist and research manager .

Biographical data

Gerd Peter comes from a family of miners in North Hesse. He attended the Wesertor / Goetheschule Realgymnasium in Kassel, where he graduated from high school. This was followed by 18 months of military service in Koblenz and Sonthofen and the subsequent recognition as a conscientious objector . From 1963 Peter studied at the Free University of Berlin , in his main studies first journalism, then political science at the Otto Suhr Institute (OSI), which he graduated in 1969 with a diploma in political science. This was followed by a doctorate on "The IBM System" with Ossip K. Flechtheim . Gerd Peter is married and has two sons. He lives in Dortmund-Dorstfeld .

Professional background

Peter started his career in 1972 as a research assistant at the newly founded Institute for Environmental Protection and Environmental Quality Planning (INFU) at the University of Dortmund. In 1976 he moved to Bonn to the DFVLR project management agency for the newly launched action program “Research on the Humanization of Working Life ” (HdA). Before leaving, he was most recently the technical deputy to the head of Willi Pöhler . In 1981 he switched to the Dortmund Social Research Center (NRW Landesinstitut), where he initially carried out numerous third-party-funded labor research projects. There he was managing director from 1988 to 2002, succeeding Ursula Schumm-Garling and Wilfried Kruse. Peter has been a pensioner since 2006.

Research management

In 1992 Peter was the initiator, co-founder and editor (together with Ursula Müller, Christian von Ferber and Willi Pöhler , among others ) of ARBEIT. Journal for Labor Research and Labor Policy . Together with Gerhard Naegele , he has been the publisher of the academic series Dortmunder Contributions to Social and Social Policy, LIT Verlag Münster, since 1992 . In 1997 Peter, together with other people and institutes, founded the former minister Stein mine in Dortmund-Eving , a social science center Minister Stein (ZMS) , at the new location of the social research center (among others with: Institute for Gerontology IfG, cooperation center for science and work, Development Center EWZ, Society for the Promotion of Social Research GfS). In 2002 he was co-initiator (together with Frieder Otto Wolf , Dieter Scholz and Helmut Martens) of the Forum New Politics of Work in Berlin. After retiring in 2006, Peter was a founding member (together with Arno Georg and Uwe Dechmann, among others) of the Dortmund Research Office for Work Prevention and Politics (DoFAPP).

Publications (selection)

  • Modernes Management (I) and (II) , in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 8 and 9, 1971, pp. 816–824 and 940–950.
  • The IBM system. Discipline through programming? , European Publishing House, Frankfurt a. M./Köln 1975.
  • Participate, help shape, have a say. Employees change their working conditions , jointly ed. with W. Fricke and W. Pöhler , series of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation: Science in the interests of workers, Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1982.
  • Experience with the humanization program. On the possibilities and limits of a socially oriented technology policy , together with Willi Pöhler. Series of the Hans Böckler Foundation: Science in the interests of workers, Bund Verlag, Cologne 1982.
  • The occupational safety officer. Representation of interests and labor policy in hard coal mining . Research report, together with Wolfgang Thon and Hans Vollmer. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
  • Labor research theory. Situation-Institution-System as basic categories of empirical social science , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Work - Age - Region. On the debate about the future of work, about demographic development and the opportunities for regional policy formation . Contributions from FfG and sfs, together with Gerhard Naegele (ed.). Dortmund contributions to social and social policy, vol. 25, LIT Verlag, Münster 2000.
  • Between self-determination and self-exploitation. Social change and new work , together with Helmut Martens, Frieder O. Wolf (ed.). Campus reference book 2001.
  • Knowledge politics and knowledge work as social reform. Selected contributions to labor research 1972-2002 . Series Dortmunder Contributions to Social and Social Policy Vol. 50, LIT Verlag, Münster 2003.
  • Border conflicts of work. The Formation of a New European Labor Policy , (Ed.). VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2007.
  • World is work. In the struggle for the new order , together with Frieder Otto Wolf , with the collaboration of Pia Paust-Lassen and Andreas Peter: Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2007.
  • Work and freedom in contradiction? Unconditional basic income - a model in the dispute of opinion , together with Hartmut Neuendorff and Frieder Otto Wolf (eds.). VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2009.
  • Work situation analysis. For the phenomenological foundation of interdisciplinary work research . Volume 1, together with Christina Meyn (Ed.). VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Primary work policy and cooperative work sciences - experiences and perspectives , in: Werner Fricke, Hilde Wagner (ed.): Democratization of work. New approaches for humanization and economic democracy, VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2012, pp. 111–128.
  • Work, autonomy and health in the break of an era - or: Is participation harmful to health? , together with Uwe Dechmann, Arno Georg, Kerstin Guhlemann, Olaf Katenkamp, ​​Christina Meyn. In: Yearbook for Critical Medicine and Health Sciences 49, Argument Verlag, Berlin; Hamburg 2013, pp. 29–52.
  • Self-worth feeling. Psychosocial stress in change management processes , together with Arno Georg u. a .: VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2016.
  • Humanization of work 4.0. Prevention and democracy in the digitized working society, together with Arno Georg, Kerstin Guhlemann (eds.). VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2020.

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ http://www.zeitschriftarbeit.de/zeitschrift-arbeit/
  2. ↑ http://lit-verlag.de/reihe/DBSG
  3. ↑ http://www.sfs.tu-dortmund.de/cms/de/DieSFS/Gremien_Netzwerke/GFS/index.html
  4. ↑ http://www.fnpa.de/index.php/publikationen
  5. ↑ https://dofapp.de/publikationen
  6. ↑ http://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/www.vsa-verlag.de-Georg-Peter-SelbstWertGefuehl.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/buecher/detail/artikel/humanisierung-der-arbeit-40/
personal data
SURNAME Peter, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, work researcher, ergonomist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wickenrode