Dr. Anthony Knowles
Contact
D-10785 Berlin
Research fields
CV
Anthony Knowles is a Visiting Researcher at the WZB in the Globalization, Work and Production Research Group. His DAAD funded research project “The Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany: Challenges in Manufacturing, Adoption, and Global Competition” involves qualitative interview with German experts and consumers to better understand the German EV transition. Comparative research with the American EV transition is also ongoing in partnership with the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A book comparing the development of automation in the German and American auto industries entitled Driving Productivity was also published by Brill in 2025.
Selected Publications
2025
Knowles, Anthony J. Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany. Studies in Critical Social Sciences Volume 331. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
2024
Knowles, Anthony J. 2024. “The Artificiality of Digital Scarcity: Contradictions between Code, Law, Norms, and Value(s).” Fast Capitalism. 21(1): 27-47.
2023
Knowles, Anthony J. 2023. “Universal Basic Income, Social Justice, and Marginality: A Critical Evaluation.” Social Justice A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order. 48(4): 1-31.
2021
Knowles, Anthony J. 2021. “Sociology as Social System: Luhmann, Enlightenment, and the Gap between ‘Facts’ and ‘Norms.’” In Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory. Edited by Harry F. Dahms. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. 37: 157-190.