Soziologie

As part of the 43rd DGS Congress at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from September 28 to October 2, 2026, Ursula Mense-Petermann and Alexandra Scheele (RTG Principal Investigators) organized an ad hoc group on the topic “How Are Cross-Border Labor Markets Possible? Possibilities and Limits of Solving Coordination Problems Beyond the Nation-State.”

In this context, RTG Doctoral Researchers presented their research:

• Jonas Feldmann: “National” or “Transnational” Solutions to Coordination Problems in Cross-border Labor Markets? The Organization of the Intra-European Transport Labor Market
• Benedikt Heckens: Social Struggles over Labor Regimes in the Hungarian Battery Industry. Migrant Labor, Accumulation Regimes, and Global Production
• Lisa Mansfeld: The Family-Migration-Career Nexus: Reflections on the Role of the Family in the Context of Cross-Border Labor Markets
• Elisabeth Schmidt: Global Entertainers (from Big Top to Cruise Ship): A Study of Cross-Border Markets and Mobility-Based Careers of Circus Artists
• Greta Wienkamp: Around the World in High Heels – The Transnational Social Constitution of the Modeling Market: The Case of the Commodification of Labor