: Special issues
Three issues of each volume are special issues. They are published on February 1, June 1 and October 1 every year. The special issues are conceptualised and coordinated by guest editors.
Special Issues 2022
- 1/2022: Political Representation of Weak Interests within the Welfare State
- 3/2022: The New Housing Question
- 5/2022: Who Cares? Jobs in the Long-Term Care Sector
Special Issues 2021
- 1/2021: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains
- 3/2021: New Mobility? Transport Policy between Social Participation and Climate Change
- 5/2021: Voluntary Work and the Structural Transformation of the Welfare State
Special Issues 2020
- 1/2020: Work Intensification – A Characteristic of the Modern Working World?
- 3/2020: Inequality in the Service Sector
- 5/2020: Solidarity – National, European, Global
Special issues 2019
- 1/2019: Sustainable Work: Political Obstacles and Transformation Potential
- 3/2019: Right-Wing Populism and the Social Issue: Challenges for the World of Work and the Trade Unions
- 5/2019: Accommodating Employees with Health Impairments in the Workplace
Special issues 2018
- 1/2018: The ageing workforce
- 3/2018: The Specifics of Industrie 4.0 – Unsynchronised Developments and Labour Political Classifications
- 5/2018: Dynamics of social inequality
Special issues 2017
- 7/2017: Minimum wage in Germany: experiences and analyses
- 5/2017: Labour market science: new career paths in sight?
- 3/2017: Gainful employment in the social sector
- 1/2017: Is atypical becoming the norm? Employment in transition
Special issues 2016
- 7/2016: Justice demands and employee awareness today - new approaches, new findings
- 5/2016: Experience of crises under Hartz IV legislation. Life Situation and living conditions of social security recipients
- 3/2016: What about co-determination?
- 1/2016: Social Europe: Problems and perspectives
Special issues 2015
- 7/2015: Industrial policy
- 5/2015: Migration - labour market - social policy
- 3/2015: Perspectives and limitations of occupational health and safety
- 1/2015: From gender mainstreaming to quota. Gender equality politics in Europe
Special issues 2014
- 7/2014: Limits of growth – limits of capitalism?
- 5/2014: Strikes and social protest
- 3/2014: Labour market and social security: Time for a new agenda
- 1/2014: The future of skilled work
Special issues 2013
- 7/2013: Is there an erosion of employers’ collective interest representation in Germany?
- 5/2013: Ageing in a labour society
- 3/2013: From breadwinner wage to family income?
- 1/2013: Insiders and outsiders: the vocational training system and its integration capacity
Special issues 2012
- 7/2012: Stabilising collective bargaining – reforming the extension of collective agreements
- 5/2012: Vocational training within companies: Structures and new developments
- 3/2012: Recipients of benefits, citizens or consumers? The beneficiaries of social policy
- 1/2012: Mini jobs