Third-party-funded Projects

Current third-party-funded projects

• Deindustrialisierung in Frankreich und Deutschland. Erfahrungen und Emotionen von den 1960er Jahren bis heute. The Unmaking of the Working Class?
  
• Vertriebene außerhalb Deutschlands. Die donauschwäbischen Nachkriegsauswanderungen nach La Roque-sur-Pernes (Frankreich) und Entre Rios (Brasilien)
  
• Die Mitbestimmungspraxis der Betriebsräte im Aufsichtsrat in der Weimarer Republik
  
• Workplace democracy: a European ideal? : discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945
  
• Workplace democracy: a European ideal? : discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945
  
• Vom Rand in die Mitte: Rechtspopulistische Deutungen des (radikalen) Islams als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung in Deutschland, Europa und beyond
  

Completed third-party-funded projects

• Digitale Tools und Interessenorganisation im Globalen Süden
  
• Gewerkschaften und Kirche im gesellschaftlichen Wandel
  
• Erinnerungskulturen der sozialen Demokratie
  
• Heinz Oskar Vetter: Bergmann und Staatsmann – Gewerkschaftlicher Realist mit Phantasie
  
• Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST)
  
• ZEIT-RÄUME RUHR
  
• Lehrforschungprojekt: Öffentliche Sozialforschung: Engagement in der Ruhr-Metropole
  
• Social Performances of Cultural Trauma and the Rebuilding of Solid Sovereignties (SPECTRESS)
  
• Metamorphoses of Reality. Church Youth Associations and Third-World Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
  
• Industrial Heritage in South Wales and the Ruhr
  
• Transnationaler Arbeitsrechtsaktivismus entlang von Wertschöpfungsketten in den Sektoren Textil – Bekleidung
  
• Starter Project: "The Ruhr Region: A Global Beacon for Industrial Heritage"
  
• Operational representation of interests in an 'old industrial' sector
  
• Contested working conditions in the global production of garments
  
• "Die Zukunft", Paris, und die "Deutsch-Französische Union (1938-1940)"
  
• Development of participation in the West German car industry
  
• Citizen and trade unionist: Ludwig Rosenberg 1946-1977
  
• The "closure" of mines
  
• Research Group: Transformation of Religion in the Modern
  
• Towards Transnational Trade Union Representation?
  
• Political Parties and European Integration
  
• Gewerkschaftlicher Wiederbeginn im Bergbau – Quellen zur Gründungsgeschichte der Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, 1945-1951
  
• RUB-Forum Capital of Culture 2010
  
• Historic reader Ruhrgebiet
  
• The International Building Exhibition Emscherpark 1989-1999
  
• Visitor behaviour at memorial double past
  
• Forced labour in the German coal mining (ZIB)
  
• Work and survival in Yugoslavia. Local mining companies and the Second World War (DFG)
  
• Participation and social policy in the history of the Bayer Group
  
• Mülheim entrepreneurs: pioneers of the economy
  
• Conference: peace movements since 1945 in comparative perspective in Western Europe, Japan and the U.S.. Forms of protest, symbolism, political culture
  
• Research on the history of the SPD Division
  
• Hans Böckler Biography
  
• Memberships and social structures of the parties of the left spectrum in the Western occupation zones and in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945 - 1990 (DFG project)
  
• Opinion polls in the competitive democracy
  
• The Leipzig Trade Fair as a place of contestation of the systems 1946-1990
  
• Democracy in Central Germany. Democratic Movement and Politics in Saxony, Thuringia and Anhalt 1830-1930
  
• Labor movement and political cultures in Germany and France since the Enlightenment
  
• Resistance and international solidarity. The trade union of seafarers, dockers and boatmen and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) in the resistance against the Nazi regime
  
• History of social ideas in Germany 1800-1990
  
• Workers, works councils and trade unions in the SBZ / GDR 1945-1953 with particular emphasis on mining and chemical industries
  
• Memberships and social structures of the parties in the Western occupation zones and in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945 - 1990
  
• Transformations of Catholicism and the Catholic working-class in the Ruhr 1930-1960
  
• The "Ostpolitik" of West German Industry 1945-1990
  

Further information on studies of the History of the Ruhr Foundation can be found here.