Norbert Altmann

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Norbert Altmann (born November 3, 1933 in Offenbach am Main ; † March 8, 2015 in Munich ) was a German industrial sociologist . Until 1997 he was research director at the Institute for Social Science Research in Munich.

Life

Altmann studied sociology , economics and social history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He belonged to the first generation of sociology students who studied with Theodor W. Adorno at Frankfurt University. After completing his studies, he worked in corporate HR and training and, together with Burkart Lutz, headed the Institute for Social Science Research in Munich, which was founded in early 1965. Norbert Altmann built this up together with Burkart Lutz, led it and shaped it over the decades. From the 80s he did a lot of research in Japan and SE Asia.

Norbert Altmann was a member of the EF Committee of Experts of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions from 1993 to 2002. He held an honorary professorship at Bielefeld University, and since 1982 has held multiple visiting professorships in Japan.

Altmann's main research areas were industrial sociologist and ergonomics .

Publications

  • Corporate governance structure and industrial society , 1971 (with Günter Bechtle)
  • Limits to New Forms of Work , 1983 (co-author)
  • Systemic rationalization and supplier industry , 1989 (Ed. With Dieter Sauer)
  • Technology and Work in German Industry , 1992/2017 (Ed. With Christoph Köhler, Pamela Meil)
  • Innovative labor policy. On the qualitative production work in Japan , 1998 (co-author)
  • After the »Short Dream«: New Orientations in Labor Research (with Fritz Böhle ), edition sigma, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3836035750
  • numerous publications on theoretical and empirical industrial sociology at home and abroad

literature

  • ISF Munich - Institute for Social Science Research eV 1965–1990: Lectures on the 25th anniversary of the IFS and on the 65th birthday of Burkart Lutz.
  • Burkart Lutz (ed.): Development perspectives of work: results from the special research area 333 of the University of Munich . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Karl Martin Bolte : The ISF in the social science research landscape and Joachim Bergmann : Rationalization Dynamics - Organization of Industrial Work - Social Inequality. Both in: Institute for Social Science Research eV 1965-1990 (Ed.): Lectures on the 25th anniversary of the IFS and on the 65th birthday of Burkart Lutz. P. 12 f. and p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2015
Place of death Munich