German trade unions, like any form of unionism, can be viewed from three political perspectives. From a unitarist viewpoint, trade unions are…

Somewhere between a renaming and a re-founding – deceptively labelled “Generation Germany” (GG) – Germany’s far-right, or neo-Nazi, AfD has given itself…

Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial…

Despite the false promises of neoliberal capitalism and its tireless ideological cheerleaders, capitalism has always coexisted with – and at times produced…

Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy,…

Ever since feudal peasants were converted into factory workers, academics have tried to figure out not just what “work” under the often…

The more recent history of strikes in Germany dates back to 1945 with the victory over Nazism. Yet many strikes quickly came…

With the neo-fascist AfD overtaking – or at least matching – Germany’s traditional conservatives, Merz’s CDU, in recent public polling, a renewed…

Self-evidently, strikes are nothing new in Germany. In fact, they date back over 200 years. Yet for the first hundred years of…

Coca-Cola Deutschland [Germany] has an almost 100-year-long history. It was first bottled in 1929 by the Vertriebsgesellschaft für Naturgetränke [Natural Drinks Company]…