Benedikt Schreiter

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Main research areas

  • Welfare state research
  • Labor market and social policy
  • Trade union and association research
  • Religion and politics

Publications

  • Schreiter, Benedikt (2019): Low-skilled workers in the focus of interest groups. An investigation using the example of IG Metall and Gesamtmetall, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Schulze, Michaela (eds.): Wohlfahrtsstaat und Interessenorganisationen im Wandel. Theoretische Einordnungen und empirische Befunde, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 173-194.
  • Spiekermann, Olaf/ Schreiter, Benedikt/ Kürschner, Kay (2019): Sustainable restructuring and insolvency administration in the context of digitalization, in: ZinsO [Journal for the entire insolvency and restructuring law], 35/2019, pp. 1771-1778.
  • Weingarten, Jörg/ Kleßmann, Marie/ Schreiter, Benedikt/ Schwidder, Sebastian (2018): Fields of action and actors of structural policy - A meta-study from a labor-oriented perspective. Commissioned by the Labor and Environment Foundation of the IG BCE, Berlin/ Hanover.
  • Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Greef, Samuel/ Schreiter, Benedikt (2017): Shaping Digitalization. Industry 4.0 - Work 4.0 - Regulation of the Platform Economy, International Policy Analysis, Berlin: FES.
  • Samuel Greef/ Wolfgang Schroeder/Alexander Akel/ Alex Berzel/ Oliver D'Antonio/ Lukas Kiepe/ Benedikt Schreiter/ Hans Joachim Sperling (2017): Platform economy and crowdworking: An analysis of the strategies and positions of key players. Expertise commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS).
  • D'Antonio, Oliver/ Ruß-Sattar, Sabine/ Schreiter, Benedikt/ Schroeder, Wolfgang (eds.) (2017): Between wealth and precarity. Which welfare state do artists need? Conference documentation - Kassel, June 27/28, 2017, in: Kasseler Diskussionspapiere i3 - Ideen, Interessen und Institutionen im Wandel, No. 7.
  • Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Greef, Samuel/ D'Antonio, Oliver/ Schreiter, Benedikt/ Kiepe, Lukas (2017): Which welfare state do artists need?, in: D'Antonio, Oliver/ Ruß-Sattar, Sabine/ Schreiter, Benedikt/ Schroeder, Wolfgang (eds.): Zwischen Reichtum und Prekarität. What kind of welfare state do artists need? Conference documentation - Kassel, June 27/28, 2017, in: Kasseler Diskussionspapiere i3 - Ideen, Interessen und Institutionen im Wandel, No. 7, pp. 6-13.
  • Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Greef, Samuel/ D'Antonio, Oliver/ Schreiter, Benedikt/ Kiepe, Lukas (2017): Between wealth and precarity. Which welfare state do artists need?, in: WISO-Direkt 18/2017. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftun: Bonn.
  • Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Schreiter, Benedikt (2017): Business associations and the political system, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Weßels, Bernhard (eds.): Handbuch Arbeitgeber- und Wirtschaftsverbände in Deutschland, Wiesbaden: VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 369-394.
  • Schreiter, Benedikt (2016): Facts and figures on the city of Kassel, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang (ed.): Kassel 4.0. Stadt der Transformationen, Marburg: Schüren, pp. 229-268.
  • Schreiter, Benedikt/ Geiger, Sebastian (2016): Daten und Fakten zum politischen System Hessens, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Neumann, Arijana (eds.): Politik und Regieren in Hessen, Wiesbaden: VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 339-384.
  • Schreiter, Benedikt (2016): And yet it moves! Shifts in power within the church, in: Wort und Antwort, 4/2015, pp. 170-175.

Ongoing processes of change in the German labor market have led to the development of various labor market-related risk groups. Particular mention should be made of the low-skilled, whose integration into the labor market has become increasingly difficult over the last few decades. Their specific problem situation results primarily from a lack of or low (formal) qualification. At the same time, other personal characteristics such as age, gender or migration background can increase the risk of labor market integration.

As the group of low-skilled workers is heterogeneous, the dissertation project will focus on one subgroup, namely young people (particularly those aged between 15 and under 25). With this selection, the primacy of sustainable labor market integration is taken into account by focusing on the transition between school, training and employment of people without (or with) a secondary general school certificate. This sub-group is already confronted with disadvantages on the labor and training market at the beginning of their employment biography, as they are considered the "losers of educational expansion" and the "secondary general school as a residual school" is discredited.

The dissertation therefore aims, on the one hand, to reflect on why the collective capacity to act of this risk group exhibits a certain "fragility", i.e. certain limitations. On the other hand, it asks how the organization and representation of the interests of the low-skilled, in particular the sub-group of "young people", is shaped by (established) labour market actors.

To this end, the questions and hypotheses (currently) guiding the research were formed:

Question 1: What patterns of action can be identified in dealing with the group of low-skilled workers among (established) labor market actors?

Question 2:How have (established) labor market actors contributed to the design of labor market institutions (and instruments) in order to achieve a change in the labor market integration of the low-skilled?

Hypothesis:Despite the marginal representation of the interests of the low-skilled by (established) labor market actors, labor market institutions and instruments aimed at improving the labor market integration of the low-skilled have emerged through the interaction of the various actors.

The methodological approach is based on three focal points, which are to be applied within the planned dissertation. These are (1.) a secondary analysis of quantitative data, which will be used in particular to trace the development of the group of low-skilled workers and to identify further framework conditions (e.g. the transitions after lower secondary level), (2.) a document analysis (including parliamentary papers, association materials) and (3.) partially standardized guided interviews (expert interviews).

Lectures

  • "Shaping digitalization: Regulatory perspectives on the platform economy and crowdworking from trade unions and employers' associations", NRW Dialogue Forum of the FGW, Düsseldorf, 30.10.2018.
  • "Crowdworking and platform economy in Germany: Actor perspectives on a new form of work, its regulation and new forms of governance", FES symposium "Digitale Industrie, algorithmische Arbeit, kulturelle Transformation", Bonn, 04.10.2018.
  • "Crowdworking and platform economy in Germany - The trade unions and employers' associations perspective on the future of work, regulations, and new forms of governance", 18th ILERA World Congress 2018, Seoul, South Korea, 26.07.2018.
  • "The Labor Unions Perspective on the Platform Economy in Germany", Renmin University-Rudgers University Conference "Sharing Economy and New Types of Work International Conference and the Second Annual Forum of China Labor Science", Beijing, China, 14.07.2017
  • Emergence and failure of interests using the example of low-skilled workers. Theoretical considerations, doctoral workshop "Welfare state representation of interests: changing actor constellations", Kassel, 27.06.2015
  • Socio-economic change processes and their consequences for low-skilled workers, 3rd Rhine-Ruhr Promovendensymposium "Arbeit und Soziale Sicherheit", Duisburg, 14.03.2014
  • Socio-economic change using the example of the service sector, guest lecture as part of the MA seminar "Social Policy", Kassel, 30.01.2013

"Organization and representation of interests in the area of new social risks - using the example of low-skilled workers"

Curriculum vitae

Professional activity

  • since 08/2018
    Consultant at PCG - Project Consult
  • 10/2016 to 08/2018
    Research assistant at the department "Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany - Statehood in Transition"
  • 01/2014 to 09/2016
    Scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation
  • 07/2013 to 09/2016
    Research assistant at the department "Political System of the FRG - Statehood in Transition"
    Head: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder
  • 05/2014 to 04/2015
    Research assistant in the research project "Collective employee action in elderly care" (funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation)
    Project management: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder
    Project management: Christine Ludwig

Study period

  • 10/2010 - 10/2013
    Extension course for the teaching profession at grammar schools (L3)
    Subject: Catholic religion
  • 10/2007 - 04/2013
    Studies for the teaching degree at grammar schools (L3)
    Subjects: Politics and Economics/ Sport

Accompanying activity

  • 04/2013 - 10/2013
    Collaboration in the project "Junge Wa(h)lforscherInnen"
    Department of Didactics of Political Education" and "Politisches System der BRD - Staatlichkeit im Wandel" at the University of Kassel/ Die Kopiloten e.V./ Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hessen/ Hessische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk und neue Medien
  • 04/2012 - 05/2013
    Project planning "Young Future Advisors for Berlin"
    Department "Didactics of Political Education" at the University of Kassel/ Die Kopiloten e.V./ Ulrike Gottschalck (MdB)
  • 10/2011 - 07/2013
    Tutor for the project "Hoersaal_Luft"
    Department of "Didactics of Political Education" and "Politics of Labor Migration" at the University of Kassel/ König-Heinrich-Schule, Fritzlar/ Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Schule, Homberg/ Efze
  • 03/2011 - 07/2014
    Student and research assistant
    Department "Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany - Statehood in Transition" at the University of Kassel
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder