Stefan Schmalz was interviewed by the ARD magazine Fakt about the increase in strikes in eastern Germany in light of the ongoing labour dispute at SRW Metalfloat, a company owned by Chinese investors.
Lisa Vollmer provides insights into her study on challenges in housing provision in Thuringia for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The issue of ownership in the form of state-owned housing companies also plays a role here.
In an interview with tagesschau, Stefan Schmalz discusses the current strikes in Germany, in which ownership structures also play a role, for example at Deutsche Bahn.
What is the stance of Chinese investors on collective bargaining agreements and works councils?
Stefan Schmalz and Klaus Dörre were interviewed by MDR as experts on the dispute between owners and trade unions following the takeover of companies in Germany by Chinese investors.
In an interview with IG Metall Leipzig, Stefan Schmalz explains how Chinese investors typically operate in Germany and what impact this has on employees.
In an interview with the taz newspaper, Sylka Scholz discusses the image of masculinity in eastern Germany. Property also plays a role here: ‘The inheritance of property will further increase and solidify the material differences between east and west in the coming years.’
In an interview with taz, Stefan Schmalz reports on current strikes related to inflation and on the “Streikmonitor” (strike monitor), which documents strikes in Germany.
In an article for Freitag, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath addresses the millennium task of tackling climate change. He also discusses mistakes made in the past and a possible solution for the future.
Rights for Nature Within the Western Legal Tradition
How can the Western legal tradition be used to justify the idea that nature should belong to itself? As Tilo Wesche explains in an interview with RiffReporter, the rights of nature do not necessarily have to be linked to the idea of a “sacred” nature; rather, they can simply be derived from our concept of property.
The newspaper “Freitag” has published a detailed review of Tilo Wesche's book "The Rights of Nature". With its call to grant nature itself “civil rights”—that is, property rights—the book is described as “an intervention in the fray” and proves “that philosophy does not have to take place in an ivory tower.”
“Outdoors” with Tilo Wesche: On the Rights of Nature
On the “Draußen” podcast, Tilo Wesche talks about his new book, "The Rights of Nature": “I want to develop a concept of sustainability based on existing property rights. I want to use existing property law to show why there is already a built-in limit of sustainability within that law—we simply need to articulate it more clearly,” he says in the podcast episode.
In her guest article for the Frankfurter Rundschau, Silke van Dyk notes that the fundamental patterns of distribution, property, and infrastructure policy necessitate a “bottom-up redistribution.”
Historical connections between property, race, and identity politics
Jürgen Martschukat writes in Geschichte der Gegenwart (History of the Present) about the origins of the racial wealth gap and its repercussions to this day.
Sein und Streit - The public sphere and private platforms
In the Deutschlandfunk radio program “Streit und Sein” on Habermas' “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere,” Sebastian Sevignani criticizes the power of digital private public platforms.
A difficult act of balance – trade unions and climate protection
Klaus Dörre is interviewed on Deutschlandfunk about cooperation between trade unions and climate activists. He talks about difficulties and challenges, but also about new alliances.
In this interview, Silke van Dyk discusses the redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top over recent decades and how class is linked to life expectancy.
Researching structural change in property ownership
The German Research Foundation is funding the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio ‘Structural Change in Property Ownership’ at the University of Jena and the University of Erfurt.
