Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer

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Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer

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didem.oezkiziltan [at] wzb.eu
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Research Fellow of the Research Group

Dr. Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Fairwork Project’s Germany team at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

Didem’s research interests include work and employment relations, focusing on AI regulation, the governance of platform work in Germany, and the development of AI for the European workplace. She holds a PhD in Social & Policy Sciences from the University of Bath, where her doctoral research examined the political economy of insecurity in modern Turkey’s industrial relations.

Before joining the Fairwork Project, Didem was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute, the University of Parma, the Hertie School of Governance, and Freie Universität Berlin.

Research fields

Industrial relations and globalisation | Governance and law | Labour and labour market

Selected Publications

  • Governing Engels’ Pause: AI and the World of Work in Germany. ILR Review, 77(5), 846-856. https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241278956e
  • Governing the work-related risks of AI: The implications for the German government and trade unions (co-authored with Anke Hassel) Transfer Special Issue on Regulating AI at work, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589221147228
  • Goodbye labouring man, long live homo economicus: The new precarity in the world of work, Globalizations, Vol. 18, Issue 4, 2021, pp. 499-515, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1791380
  • Protection of Capitalism as a Regime of Rationality: A Historical Institutionalist Rereading of Modern Turkey’s Industrial Relations, Journal of Development Studies, 56(4) 2020, pp. 732-747, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1590552
  • Authoritarian Neoliberalism in AKP’s Turkey: An Industrial Relations Perspective, Industrial Relations Journal, 50(3), 2019, pp. 218-239, https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12248
  • Turkish Industrial Relations at the Crossroads: Revisiting the History of Industrial Relations in the Early Post-War II Period (co-authored with Dr Aziz Çelik), International Labor and Working-Class History Vol. 93, Spring 2018, pp. 151-175, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547917000291