Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan. A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2018

Krzywdzinski, Martin

Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan. A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2018

dc.contributor.author	Krzywdzinski, Martin
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-04T09:21:49Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-04T09:21:49Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	In the current public discussion, it is considered certain that we are living in a time of rapidly advancing automation, which is driven in particular by the use of robots. Accordingly, many academic publications use robot density as the central indicator of automation. The present study challenges this perspective. It examines two central questions: First, what approaches to automation and digitalization have been pursued in the automotive industry in Germany, Japan and the USA? Second, how have employment and its occupational composition in the automotive industry developed in the three countries? The first part of the study focuses on the development of automation and digitalization approaches in the automotive industry from the early 1990s until today. It combines a qualitative analysis of press articles and a quantitative evaluation of the development of the stock of industrial robots from 1993 to 2018 based on the statistics of the International Federation of Robotics. The second part of the study focuses on the change in employment structures using occupational statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (USA), the Federal Employment Agency (Germany) and the Statistics Bureau of Japan. The study questions the perception of an automation-related threat to employment and especially to production employment. At the same time, it discusses developments in Germany, Japan and the USA in comparison and highlights differences in automation and digitalization approaches as well as different paths of change in employment structures.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Krzywdzinski, M. (2020). Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan. A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2018 (Weizenbaum Series, 10). Weizenbaum Institute. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WS/10
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.ws/10
dc.identifier.eissn	2748-5587
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/4
dc.identifier.zdb	3064032-5
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Series
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject	Economics	en
dc.subject	Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations	en
dc.subject	Labor Market Research	en
dc.subject	official statistics	en
dc.subject	quantitative method	en
dc.subject	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	historical development	en
dc.subject	employment	en
dc.subject	robot	en
dc.subject	employment research	en
dc.subject	United States of America	en
dc.subject	technical literature	en
dc.subject	automation	en
dc.subject	structure	en
dc.subject	qualitative method	en
dc.subject	employment trend	en
dc.subject	periodical	en
dc.subject	portal	en
dc.subject	Japan	en
dc.subject	automobile industry	en
dc.subject	Wirtschaft	de
dc.subject	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject	Automobile Industry	de
dc.subject	Automation	de
dc.subject	Digitalization	de
dc.subject	Occupation	de
dc.subject	Germany	de
dc.subject	United States	de
dc.subject	Japan	de
dc.subject	Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen	de
dc.subject	Arbeitsmarktforschung	de
dc.subject	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject	quantitative Methode	de
dc.subject	historische Entwicklung	de
dc.subject	Japan	de
dc.subject	Roboter	de
dc.subject	Struktur	de
dc.subject	Zeitschrift	de
dc.subject	Kraftfahrzeugindustrie	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	Beschäftigungsentwicklung	de
dc.subject	amtliche Statistik	de
dc.subject	Fachliteratur	de
dc.subject	USA	de
dc.subject	Automatisierung	de
dc.subject	qualitative Methode	de
dc.subject	Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung	de
dc.subject	Beschäftigung	de
dc.subject	Portal	de
dc.subject.ddc	330 Wirtschaft
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title	Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan. A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2018
dc.type	WorkingPaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	10
local.researchgroup	Arbeiten in hochautomatisierten, digital-hybriden Prozessen
local.researchtopic	Mensch – Arbeit – Wissen

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