Martin Krzywdzinski

Principal Investigator

Prof Dr Martin Krzywdzinski is the co-principal investigator of the Fairwork project and the Fairwork Germany team.

Martin heads the research group “Globalization, Work and Production” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), where the Fairwork project is based. Martin is also one of seven directors of the Weizenbaum-Institut and a Professor of International Industrial Relations at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

He holds a Ph.D. from the FU Berlin and habilitated there in sociology. He is co-director of the doctoral program “Good Work” at the WZB and a member of the steering committee of the international automotive research network GERPISA. He is also a board member of the industrial and labor sociology section of the German Sociological Association.

Martin Krzywdzinski is active on several advisory boards (e.g. for MIT’s “Future of Work” program) and as a reviewer for funding institutions, foundations, and journals. He conducts research into the changing nature of work in the context of globalisation and digitalisation. He has led a number of internationally positioned research projects, including research into the changing nature of work in emerging economies, crowdwork and Industrie 4.0.