Prof. Dr. Karen A. Shire

Professor , Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften, University of Duisburg-Essen

Associated Professorship

Sociology

Vita

1997-1999 Director of Faculty Development (responsible for teaching evaluation and the use of new media in teaching), International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan; 4/1996-1999 Associate professor and graduate school professor of sociology with the emphases labour sociology, political sociology and comparative sociology, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan; 1987-1990 research assistant, Internationals Class, Analysis Project (project led by Erik Olin Wright); 1989 research assistant, Social Science Research Centre Berlin ((former) labour market policy department); 1983-1984 Project assistant, Race and Schooling Project (project led by Maureen Hallinan & Aage Soerensen); BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) in sociology, Ph.D in sociology (1990), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Focus of Work

Japanese societal comparison and society.

Research and Practice projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

Websitelink to my Publications

Keywords

organisation, comparative institutional studies, labour organisation, work, Japan

Casegroup

Social Sciences