Walther Müller-Jentsch

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Walther Müller-Jentsch (born November 28, 1935 in Düsseldorf ) is a German economist and social scientist .

Walther Müller-Jentsch (2012)

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After training and working for several years as an industrial clerk and later as a freelance journalist, Müller-Jentsch obtained his university entrance qualification through the second educational path at the Hessenkolleg (1961–1963) in Frankfurt am Main. From 1963 he studied sociology , political science and economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main and industrial relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His teachers were Theodor W. Adorno , Jürgen Habermas and - at the LSE - Ralph Miliband . During his studies he was a member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS).

From 1969 to 1981 he was a research associate at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research . In 1982 he was appointed professor of social science at the University of Paderborn . In 1990 the University of Warwick in Great Britain invited him as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor for European Industrial Relations. From 1992 he taught as a professor for sociology with the chair for organization and co-determination in the faculty for social sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 2001 he retired. His work and research focuses on industrial sociology , specifically Industrial Relations , Sociology, unions , organizational sociology and the arts and literature sociology .

He has made fundamental theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of industrial relations. Among other things, he introduced the terms co-management and conflict partnership into the scientific discussion of industrial relations. During his studies at the London School of Economics (1966/67), a one-year research stay at the Industrial Relations Research Unit of the University of Warwick (1980/81) and his visiting professorship at the same university (1990), he familiarized himself with the British tradition of industrial relations and sought collegial cooperation with leading representatives of this discipline ( Hugh Clegg , George Bain, Richard Hyman ). With this fund he wrote the first German-language textbook on industrial relations: Sociology of Industrial Relations . In the late phase of his teaching activities and after his retirement he devoted himself more to the sociology of art and published with the publication Die Kunst in der Gesellschaft a “systematic representation of the art system with its components and institutions”.

Müller-Jentsch is the sole editor of the series of industrial relations and, together with Hansjörg Weitbrecht , David Marsden, Dieter Sadowski , Jörg Sydow and Franz Traxler, founding co-editor of the industrial relations magazine - the magazine for work, organization and management  : The German Journal of Industrial Relations . He was a long-time reviewer of the German Research Foundation for two industrial sociological priority programs and was involved as a member of the board of the German section of the International Industrial Relations Association (GIRA) from 1996 to 2003 . As a member of the founding board of the Ruhr Area Library Foundation in Bochum, he was a member of the board from 1998 to 2012 and was co-editor of the publications of the Ruhr Area Library Foundation during this time .

With occasional publications, Müller-Jentsch has also emerged as a poet. After early political poetry from the 1960s - published in Peter Hamm's anthology Perspectives. Young lyric poets from the German-speaking area - his late poetry is articulated in a natural, elegiac tone.

Müller-Jentsch lives in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth .

Selection of works

Books

  • Unions in the Federal Republic (with J. Bergmann and O. Jacobi), 2nd volumes 1975 and 1977.
  • Sociology of Industrial Relations , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2nd edition 1997. ISBN 3-593-35705-4 .
  • Industrial relations. Data, time series, trends 1950–1999 (together with Peter Ittermann). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-593-36587-1
  • Organizational sociology. An introduction , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-36792-0 .
  • Structural change in industrial relations. "Industrial citizenship" between market and regulation , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15567-8 , ISBN 3-531-15567-9 . 2nd, completely revised edition: Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-13727-4 .
  • Work and citizen status. Studies on social and industrial democracy , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16051-1 .
  • The art in society . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17694-9 .
  • Trade unions and the social market economy since 1945 . Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-018897-2 .
  • Tariff autonomy. About the organization of the labor market through collective agreements . Springer SV, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-21227-8 .
  • Co-determination. Employee rights in the company and in the company . Springer SV, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-24173-5 .

Articles in magazines and compilations

  • On the trade union dual character and its theoretical dissolution in neo-coporatism , in: Institute for Social Research (Ed.): Social work and rationalization , Leviathan, special issue 4/1981, pp. 178-200
  • Unions as intermediary organizations , in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, special issue 24, 1982, pp. 408–433.
  • On productive forces and civil rights , in: N. Beckenbach / W. van Treeck (ed.), Umbruchlicher Sozialarbeit, Soziale Welt, special volume 9, Göttingen 1994, pp. 643-661
  • Germany: From Collective Voice to Co-management , in: J. Rogers / W. Streeck (ed.), Works Councils. Consultation, Representation, and Cooperation in Industrial Relations , The University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1995, pp. 53-78
  • Works councils are taking shape. Results of a works council survey in mechanical engineering , in: Industrial Relations , 5th year (1998), no. 4, pp. 361-387.
  • Change in company and work organization and its effects on the interest relationships between employers and employees , in: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung , 31st year (1998), pp. 575-584.
  • Actors, interests, institutions , in: M. Schmidt / A. Maurer (Ed.), Economic and Sociological Institutionalism , Metropolis, Marburg 2003, pp. 245-257
  • Theoretical Approaches to Industrial Relations , in: BE Kaufman (Ed.), Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship , Champaign / Illinois 2004 (Industrial Relations Research Association), pp. 1-41
  • Series history of co-determination: I. How the unions came to co-determination ; II. Using codetermination for a new economic order ; III. Does participation fit into the social market economy . In: Codetermination (magazine of the Hans Böckler Foundation), 2007, issue 12 ; 2008, issue 1/2 ; 2008, issue 3
  • The association - a blind spot in organizational sociology . In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie , Vol. 18 (2008), No. 3, pp. 476–502.
  • Co-determination, the misunderstood factor of order , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (page: The order of the economy) of September 25, 2009, p. 12
  • Trade unions and corporatism: From class struggle to conflict partnership , in: KC Führer / J. Noon / A. Schildt / K. Tenfelde (Ed.): Revolution and Labor Movement in Germany 1918-1920 , Klartext, Essen 2013, pp. 81-96
  • Conflict partnership and other types of industrial relationships , in: Industriellerechte , 23rd vol. (2016), pp. 518-531

Essays on the sociology of art and literature

  • Artists and artist groups. Sociological views of a precarious profession , in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie, Vol. 15 (2005), Issue 2, pp. 159–177.
  • The art system and its organizations or The fragile autonomy of art , in: Wieland Jäger / Uwe Schimank (Ed.): Organizational society. Facets and Perspectives , Wiesbaden 2005 (VS Verlag), pp. 186–219.
  • Exclusivity and the public. On strategies in the literary field , in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 36th vol. (2007), Heft 3, pp. 219–241.
  • From counter-model to model. The artist in the conflict of sociological discourses , in: Soziologische Revue, 35th year (2012), issue 3, pp. 276–284.
  • Art criticism as a literary genre. Social conditions of their emergence, development and crisis , in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 22nd year (2012), No. 4, pp. 539-568.
  • The artist as a tilting figure - artists in the modern world of work? , in: Leviathan, Volume 44 (2016), Heft 3, pp. 476-481.
  • Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). Art sociology between negativity and reconciliation. In: Christian Steuerwald (Hrsg.): Classics of the sociology of the arts . Wiesbaden 2017 (Springer VS), pp. 351–380.
  • A remarkable match: Max Weber and Theodor W. Adorno on social and aesthetic rationality , in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 27th year (2017), Heft 2, pp. 293-301.
  • Le tour des artistes. Why artists come together in groups , in: Simon Fietze / Doris Holtmann / Florian Schramm (eds.): Between provinces and metropolises. Stations on a socio-economic journey. Festschrift for Wenzel Matiaske , Augsburg-Munich 2018 (Hampp), pp. 267–271.
  • Adorno's ambivalent reception by Heine . in: Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Heine-Jahrbuch 2019 . Stuttgart-Weimar (Metzler) 2019, pp. 93–99.

Editorships

  • (with Otto Jacobi and Eberhard Schmidt ): Trade unions and class struggle. Critical Yearbook (Fischer Verlag: 1972–1975); Critical union yearbook (Rotbuch Verlag 1977–1983).
  • Future of the unions. An international comparison. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • Publication series Industrial Relations , so far 18 volumes. Munich / Mering 1990 ff.
  • Profitable ethics - efficient culture. Management creates new meaning? Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mering 1993, ISBN 3-87988-048-4 .
  • Conflict partnership . Actors and institutions of industrial relations . Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mering 1999 (3rd edition), ISBN 3-87988-358-0 .
  • The Changing Contours of German Industrial Relations . Edited by Walther Müller-Jentsch and Hansjörg Weitbrecht on behalf of the German Industrial Relations Association, Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mering 2003, ISBN 3-87988-739-X .

Literature about Müller-Jentsch

  • Jörg Abel / Hans Joachim Sperling (eds.): Upheavals and continuities. Perspectives of national and international industrial relations. Walther Müller-Jentsch on his 65th birthday , Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mering: 2001.
  • Martin Behrens : Does the conflict partnership still exist? In: Codetermination. The magazine of the Hans Böckler Foundation. 62nd year 2016, issue 6, pp. 44–46.
  • Cornelia Girndt: What connects us. In: Codetermination. The magazine of the Hans Böckler Foundation. Volume 61, 2015, issue 12, pp. 46-47.
  • Andrea Maurer : Müller-Jentsch, Walther. Sociology of Industrial Relations. An introduction . In: Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff (Ed.): Lexicon of sociological works . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 490–491.
  • Wolfgang Streeck : From conflict without partners to partnership without conflict: Industrial relations in Germany. In: Industrial Relations - Journal of Work, Organization and Management. 23rd year 2016, issue 1, pp. 47–60.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Streeck : From conflict without partners to partnership without conflict: Industrial relations in Germany. In: Industrial Relations - Journal of Work, Organization and Management. 23rd year, issue 1, p. 48.
  2. ↑ Martin Behrens : Introduction to the controversial conflict partnership . In: Industrial Relations - Journal of Work, Organization and Management. 23rd year, issue 1, p. 45.
  3. ↑ Walther Müller-Jentsch: Sociology of Industrial Relations. An introduction . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1986, 2nd edition 1997.
  4. ↑ Walther Müller-Jentsch: The art in society . 2nd Edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 9 ..
  5. ^ Foundation Library of the Ruhr Area
  6. ↑ Peter Hamm (Ed.): '' Prospects. Young lyric poets of the German-speaking area. '' Bücher der Ninteen. Biederstein Verlag, Munich 1966, pp. 145–148.
  7. ↑ See Niederrhein near Düsseldorf. Trois homages. In: Sense and Form. 68th year, issue 1/2016 pp. 97–98.
  8. ↑ Publication series Industrial Relations , Vol. 1-18
  9. ↑ Die Mitbeststellung issue 6/2016
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Jentsch, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf