Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

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Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (* 1973 in Bad Dürkheim ) is a work sociologist , professor at the University of Göttingen and director of the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI).

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Nicole Mayer-Ahuja studied history , political science and Semitic studies at the universities of Heidelberg and London after graduating from the Leininger-Gymnasium in Grünstadt . Her master's thesis on mass unemployment, social policy and the health consequences of the global economic crisis of 1929 was published by Centaurus (1999). At the University of Göttingen (1999–2002) Mayer-Ahuja wrote the doctoral thesis Learning to serve again? From West German 'normal employment' to precarious employment since 1973 . After research on the scope of the delimitation of work in internet and multimedia companies, the habilitation thesis (2010) was devoted to the limits of the homogenization of work in the course of the transnationalization of corporate activities . More recent research by Mayer-Ahuja deals on the one hand with the analysis of changes in the world of work “after the boom” based on the testing of IT-based secondary analyzes of work sociological material (head of the project groups ReSozIT and eLabour). On the other hand, her studies continue to focus on precarious and informal work, for example in research on the operational integration of refugees, with interactions between the design of work processes, employment relationships and the state regulation of work and migration play a central role.

Mayer-Ahuja was a research assistant at the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI) at the University of Göttingen eV from 2002 to 2011 and director of the SOFI from 2011 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 she worked as a professor for the sociology of work, organization and innovation at the Department of Social Economics at the University of Hamburg . Since 2014 Mayer-Ahuja has held the professorship for the sociology of work, business and economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Since her return to the SOFI board of directors, she is now a liaison professor between the university and the sociological research institute.

Mayer-Ahuja was a Fellow (2010/11) and is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Humanities College “Work and curriculum vitae in a global historical perspective” (re: work, Humboldt University Berlin). From 2012 to 2015 she was a member of the board of the work and industrial sociology section of the German Society for Sociology. Mayer-Ahuja is a liaison professor of the Hans Böckler Foundation and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and is responsible for the scientific supervision of the university and trade union cooperation center at the University of Göttingen. She acts as a reviewer for various scientific foundations and journals. She has been a member of the Lower Saxony Digital Council since 2017 .

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  • Everywhere is becoming the same? Regulating IT-work between India and Germany . Social Science Press, New Delhi 2014, ISBN 978-93-83166-01-5 .
  • Limits to homogenization. IT work between local regulation and transnational corporate strategy . Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-41072-2 .
  • Learn to serve again? From West German “normal employment” to precarious employment since 1973 . (Dissertation) Edition Sigma, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89404-502-9 .
  • Mass unemployment, social policy and the health consequences. The survey of doctors by Reichstag member Dr. Julius Moses from the crisis year 1931 (Modern Medicine and History of Science Vol. 10), Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1999, ISBN 978-3-8255-0259-1 .
  • (Ed.) With Marius Busemeyer, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Stephan Leibfried, Herbert Obinger, Birgit Pfau-Effinger: Welfare Policy in the 21st Century. New ways of research . Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-42036-3 .
  • Marx as a labor politician , in Karl Marx - Counselor to the Trade Unions? , Hamburg 2019, VSA: Verlag, pp. 39–61, ISBN 978-3-96488-007-9

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SURNAME Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Work sociologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Dürkheim