Sophie Steidel, M.A., is a pre-doctoral fellow oft the SFB “Structural Change of Property” and a research associate in the Department of Labor and Economic Sociology.
She studied sociology at Heidelberg University, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), and Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. In her master’s thesis, she investigated the crisis of social reproduction in hospitals and the professional ethics of nursing as a resource for mobilization in labor struggles.
In her studies, she worked as a research assistant in the junior research group “Bioeconomy and social inequalities. Entanglements and interdependencies in the bioenergy sector” under the direction of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse, and in the SFB subproject “Property, inequality, and class formation in socio-ecological transformation conflicts” led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre.
In her dissertation Sophie Steidel explores the labor regime and workplace conflicts at the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla.
Main fields of interest: labor and industrial sociology, socio-ecological transformation, theories of capitalism and social classes, theories of social reproduction.
