Wolfgang Littek

Research fields:

• Social structure of Germany
• Structural change to service society, new information society and knowledge society
• Empirical studies on service work, white collar work
• professions and professionalised work, academic occupations
• sociology of organisations, organisational change, learning organisations
• trust in the labour process
• research on qualifications, changes in skill requirements
• vocational training, work organisation and work culture in international comparative perspective

current research projects

• The future of professional work in Germany and Britain (profess). An empirical, international comparative research project, in cooperation with the University of Cambridge, ESRC centre for business research and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
• Devision of Labour: Social aspects, historical development, theoretical concepts.
• Sociology of service work in modern knowledge society. Theory-oriented research to outline the wide range of aspects and dimensions of service work, forms of organisations and technological implication. In cooperation with Dr. Ulrich Heisig, Angestelltenkammer Bremen.