The
Global Labour
University
International Masters Programmes for Trade Unionists
Brazil / Germany / India / South Africa / U.S.

Christoph Scherrer is professor for Globalization and Politics and executive director of the International Center for Development and Decent Work at the University of Kassel and a member of Steering Committee of the Global Labour University. He has recently received the Excellency in Teaching Award of the State of Hessia and the Excellence in Development Cooperation Award from the DAAD. Recent English language publications include: "Combating Inequality: The Global North and South", Routledge (2015, co-edited with Gallas, A., H. Herr, F. Hoffer), "The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Implications for Labor", (2014, ed.), "Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics", Routledge (2014, co-edited with Jessop, Bob, Brigitte Young), "Food Crisis: Implications for Labour", Hampp Verlag (2013, do-edited with D. Saha), "China´s Labor Question", Hampp Verlag (2011, ed.), "The Role of Gender Knowledge in Policy Networks", Nomos Verlag (2010, co-edited with B: Young).

Areas of Expertise

• International Political Economy: Governance of world markets (trade and finance), international labor standards, cross-national transfer of institutions, theories of the International Political Economy.

Contact:
Professor for Globalization and Politics in the Social
Science Department of the University of Kassel

phone: +49 (0) 561 804 3253
e-mail: scherrer(at)uni-kassel.de

Martina Sproll is a Professor of Social Sciences (Structural change and the Welfare State in international perspectives), at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin). She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Labour University.

Her research focuses on Transnational Production and Labour, Digitalisation, Gender Relations, Social (intersectional) Inequalities, Political Economy and Sociology of Latin America and Europe.

Recent English language publications include:

Missing Links in Service Value Chain Analysis – Space, Identity and Inequality in Brazilian Call Centres, in: Flecker, Jörg (ed. 2016): “Space, Place and Global Digital Work,” London: Palgrave, pp. 105-125.

Capitalist Peripheries: Perspectives on Precarisation from the Global South and North (2014, co-edited with I. Wehr), Special Issue, Austrian Journal for Development Studies (JEP), Vol. 30, No. 4/2014

“From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen. Global Production and Work in the IT-Industry” (2013, with B. Lüthje, S. Hürtgen, P. Pawlicki), Lanham MD.: Rowman & Littlefield.

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Martina Sproll
HWR Berlin/ Berlin School of Economics and Law
Department of Business and Economics
Badensche Str. 52 
10825 Berlin
Germany

phone+ 49 (0) 30 – 30877-1453
e-mail: martina.sproll@hwr-berlin.de