Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING)
- Project team:
Bechmann, Gotthard (Project leader); Günter Frederichs; Bettina-Johanna Krings
- Funding:
European Commission
- Start date:
1998
- End date:
2001
- Project partners:
FORBA, Austria; HIVA, Belgium; IES, England; IHRES, Italy; NEXUS, Ireland; University of Lisbon, Portugal; WRC, Finland (lead institution)
- Research group:
Innovation processes and impacts of technology
Project description
In the SOWING project the emphasis is on the transformation of economic structures in the information society. The project correspondingly concentrates on questions of the organisational renewal of production and service companies and developments in the world of work. The theoretical core of the project is defined by the term "technological practice". On the one hand this describes structural movements in technology use and development in the work process: forms of the task sharing and cooperation, forms of control and the emergence cultural model. On the other hand the term covers actor-related aspects: competence, knowledge, skills and management approaches.
Technology, organisation and corporate culture are viewed as co-evolutionary processes which are in principle open to social design, but are also subject to structural conditions. Specifically the term "technological practice" extends not only to the formal organisational structures of companies, but also the formal and informal structures of labour, in order to explore e.g. the question of the manifestation of new forms of social exclusion in connection with the new technologies.
The empirical part covers three elements:
- A survey of 100 firms selected at random from the production and services sector in each of the eight regions,
- an empirical study of the market, political and social conditions in each region,
- in-depth case studies at ten selected firms in each region.
For further information see SOWING web-site: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tyoelama/sowing/sowing.html
Publications
Hen or egg? The relationship between Ic-technologies and social exclusion.
2003. Bechmann, G. [Hrsg.] Across the Divide : Work, Organization and Social Exclusion in the European Information Society Berlin : Ed.Sigma, 2003 (Gesellschaft - Technik - Umwelt ; N.F.3), 123–38
Across the divide. Work, organization and social exclusion in the European information society.
2003. edition sigma
Competencia y cooperación sobre el desarrollo sociocultural de la sociedad de la información.
2002. Sociología del trabajo : ST ; revista cuatrimestral de empleo, trabajo y sociedad, (44), 125–143
Technological practices in the European auto industry: exploring cases from Belgium, Germany and Portugal.
2002. International Journal of Automotive Technology, 2, 84–100
Information Society, Work and the Generation of new Forms of social Exclusion (SOWING).
2001. 1999/2000 Jahrbuch des Instituts für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS). Hrsg.: A. Grunwald, 158–163, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZKA)
A flexibilização do trabalho melhorarã realmente as perspectivas de carreira das mulheres?: questões do género nas novas tecnologias e sistemas de informação globais.
2001. Organizações e Trabalho (Revista da APSIOT), (25), 9–19
Co-Operation or Competition? New Models of Work Organisation in the Information Society.
2001. Innovations for an e- Society. Challenges for Technology Assessment. Congress Pre-Prints, 1–11, VDI/VDE-Technologiezentrum Informationstechnik
The Development of the Information Society and Globalisation of Work - Information Technologies, new Forms of Work and Change in firm Culture.
2001. Congresso Internatioal de Tecnologias de la Information y su Reprecusion en la Sociedad Actual (2001), Puebla City, Mexico, August 22–24, 2001
Globalisierung der Arbeit und der Einsatz von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien.
2001. Vortr.: Evangelische Akademie, Bad Herrenalb, 26.Januar 2001
Technological practices in the European auto industry: exploring cases from Belgium, Germany and Portugal.
2001. 9th GERPISA Internat.Colloquium, Reconfiguring the Auto Industry : Merger and Acquisition, Alliances and Exit, Paris, F, June 7-9, 2001
Concepts of Information Society and the Social Function of Information.
2000. Towards the Information Society: The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries. Hrsg.: G. Banse, 37–52, Springer Verlag GmbH Deutschland
Soziale Nachhaltigkeit und Zukunft der Arbeit: Berlin, 9. - 10.11.2000 - Tagungsbericht.
2000. Technikfolgenabschätzung, Theorie und Praxis, 9 (4), 136–140. doi:10.14512/tatup.9.4.136
SOWING-Conference: Regional Paths in the European Information Society - Conference Report.
2000. Technikfolgenabschätzung, Theorie und Praxis, 9 (4), 140–146. doi:10.14512/tatup.9.4.140
Neue Informationstechnologien und das Problem der “Social Exclusion” - zu EU-Projekt “SOWING”.
2000. Vortrag, Universität Stuttgart (2000), Stuttgart, Germany, July 18, 2000
The role of labour and working conditions for sustainability.
2000. 3rd Internat.Conf.of the European Society for Ecological Economics on Transitions towards Sustainable Europe, Ecology - Economy - Policy, Wien, A, May 3-6, 2000 Abstracts
Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING) - the Theoretical Approach.
1999. Technikfolgenabschätzung, Theorie und Praxis, 8 (1), 3–48
Soziale Folgen des Übergangs in die Informationsgesellschaft.
1999. Fachhochschule Ingolstadt, Vortragsreihe: Informationsgesellschaft (1999), Ingolstadt, Germany, December 22, 1999
Vom Buchdruck zum Computer. Bemerkungen zur Evolution gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation.
1999. ’Information Society’, Internat.Konf.der russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Moskva, Russia, 24.-26.September 1999
Zum Begriff und zur Konzeption der Informationsgesellschaft - Gesellschaft als Informationsgesellschaft?.
1999. Workshop der Tschechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ’Von der Informationsgesellschaft zur Wissensgesellschaft’, Praha, CZ, 3.-5.Februar 1999
Sociological aspects on the definition of information. Some remarks on a theoretical problem in the SOWING project.
1999. Conf.’Information Society Changes: Organisation, Work and Employment’, Lisboa, P, February 12, 1999
Information society - a new form of technology practice and learning.
1998. Jahrestagung der European Association for Study of ScienceTechnology (EASST 1998), Lisboa, Peru, October 1–3, 1998