
Carina Altreiter
Dr. Carina Altreiter- Telephone:
- +43 1 31336 6312
- Email:
- carina.altreiter@wu.ac.at
- About me:
- Carina Altreiter received her PhD in Sociology at the University of Vienna and is currently a post-doc researcher and WU project leader in the FWF-funded project „Spatial Competition and Economic Policies (SPACE): Discourses, Institutions and Everyday Practices.” (ZK-60; duration: 2019-2023). Previously, she has been working in the project “Solidarity in times of crisis (SOCRIS)” (FWF Nr. I 2698-G27; duration: 2016-2019) at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. For her PhD thesis dealing with the influence of social class on the working-life trajectories and work experiences of young industrial blue-collar workers (Campus, 2019) she received the Theodor-Körner award in 2017. Her research areas and interests cover work and employment, social inequalities – with a focus on social class and gender –, social change, solidarity, qualitative methods and public sociology. Further information on previous activities: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0791-1598.
Affiliation
CV
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since
2019
- Post-Doc Researcher WU Wien 2017-2019
- Lecturer University of Vienna 2017-2019
- Post-doc Researcher University of Vienna 2016
- Visiting postgraduate research student (University Bristol, UK) 2014-2019
- National Correspondent for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) 2013-2017
- University assistant (prae-doc) University of Vienna 2010-2013
- Researcher JKU Linz
Researcher Identifier
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0791-1598
- Scopus Author Identification: 56404622200
Awards and Honors
- 2020
- Kurt-Rothschild-Preis
- 2017
- Theodor-Körner Preis
Classifications
- 5304 Labour market research (Details)
- 5335 Political economic theory (Details)
- 5401 General social research (Details)
- 5413 Sociological methods (Details)
- 5415 Economic sociology (Details)
Expertise
- Work and employment
- Solidarity
- Social class
- Social inequality
- social change
- science to public
Activities
Membership in scientific association | ||
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since 2019 | Diskurs. Das Wissenschaftsnetz - Vorstandsmitglied | |
2018 | Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie - Sektion Soziale Ungleichheit - Sektionsrätin | |
since 2016 | Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie - Sektion Arbeitssoziologie - Sektionsrätin | |
Other scientific activities | ||
2020 | Universität Wien - Erlesenes Erforschen: Umkämpfte Solidaritäten. Podiumsdiskussion | |
2020 | Diskurs. Das Wissenschaftsnetz - Pressegespräch "Spaltungslinien in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft | |
2019 | Ö1 - "Wie steht es um die Solidarität?" - Zu Gast in der Ö1 Sendung "Punkt 1" mit Marlene Nowotny | |
2019 | Ö1 - "Wenn der Soziologe vor der Tür steht" - Zu Gast in der Ö1 Sendung "Punkt 1" mit Xaver Forthuber |
Publications
Book (monograph)
2019 | Altreiter, Carina, Flecker, Jörg, Papouschek, Ulrike, Schindler, Saskja, Schönauer, Annika. 2019. Umkämpfte Solidaritäten. Spaltungslinien in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft. Wien: Promedia. | (Details) | |
Altreiter, Carina. 2019. Woher man kommt, wohin man geht. Über die Zugkraft der Klassenherunft am Beispiel junger IndustriearbeiterInnen. Frankfurt a. M./ New York: Campus. | (Details) |
Journal article
2021 |
Altreiter, Carina. 2021. Drawn to work: what makes apprenticeship training an attractive choice for the working-class. Journal of Education and Work. 34 (1), 1-13.
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2020 |
Altreiter, Carina, Flecker, Jörg. 2020. ‘I Get Money for What I Like Doing Best’: The Class Origin of Young Blue-Collar Workers and their Commitment to Work. Work, Employment and Society. 34 (6), 1097-1113.
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2019 | Schadauer, Andreas, Altreiter, Carina, Flecker, Jörg, Schindler, Saskja. 2019. Sozialstaatliche Solidarität und gesellschaftliche Anerkennung. SWS Rundschau. 59 (4) | (Details) | |
Altreiter, Carina. 2019. Subjekt ohne Klasse? Zur sozialen Genese von Arbeitskraft in aktuellen Debatten um eine Subjektivierung von Arbeit. Arbeits- und Industriesoziologische Studien (AIS). 12 (1), 103-118.
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Hofmann, Julia, Altreiter, Carina, Flecker, Jörg, Schindler, Saskja, Simsa, Ruth. 2019. Symbolic struggles over solidarity in times of crisis: trade unions, civil society actors and the political far right in Austria. European Societies. 21 (5), 649-671.
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2018 | Altreiter, Carina. 2018. Soziale Klasse in der Arbeitssoziologie. Zur Relevanz eines totgesagten Begriffs. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 43 (3), 251-266. | (Details) |
Working/discussion paper, preprint
2020 | Altreiter, Carina, Gräbner, Claudius, Pühringer, Stephan, Rogojanu, Ana, Wolfmayr, Georg. 2020. Theorizing Competition. An interdisciplinary approach to the genesis of a contested concept. | (Details) |
Projects
- 2019
- SPACE (2019-2023) (Details)