About

Alexandra Scheele-Baer is professor of economic sociology and the sociology of work at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Sociology. Previously, she held a substitute professorship at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld and the University of Erfurt as well as a visiting professorship at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her current research focuses on transnational care work, and the crisis of social reproduction, as well as on digitization of work and gender inequalities. Important publications analyze the gender pay gap in a comparative perspective, the gendered division of labour and materialist theories. As PI of the research project “Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Corona Crisis” funded by the VolkswagenStiftung she has been working in a comparative perspective (Austria/Germany) on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on employees in so-called essential jobs (hospitals, retail trade). In 2020/2021 she was convenor of the Interdisciplinary Research Group “Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights” at the ZiF, Bielefeld University.

Teaching Interests: (New) Economic Sociology, Theories of Capitalism, Labour Sociology, Gender Aspects of Economy and Labour.

Publications

Books 

Scheele, A., Roth, J., & Winkel, H. (Eds.) (2022). Global Contestations of Gender Rights. Bielefeld: transcript. Open Access: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6069-2/global-contestations-of-gender-rights/?number=978-3-8394-6069-6

Scheele, A., Wöhl, S. (Eds.) (2023): Feminismus – Marxismus. [Reihe Arbeitsgesellschaft im Wandel]. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. (2nd editon)

Journal Articles

Scheele, A./Schiffbänker, H./Walker, D./Wienkamp, D. (2023): Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in Times of Pandemic. In: Gender and Research. 23. Jg.

Scheele, A./Schiffbänker, H./Walker, D./Wienkamp, D. (2023): Fragile Sorge: Zumutungen und Konflikte während der COVID-19-Pandemie. In: Femina Politica. 32. Jg. H.1, 38-53

Ahrens, P. & Scheele, A. (2021). Game-changers for Gender Equality on Germany’s Labour Market? Corporate Board Quotas, Pay Transparency and Temporary Part-Time. In: German Politics. Special Issue, online first,https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2021.1984428

Scheele, A., Bolte, K. & Vogt, K. (2020): „Also es gibt keine weitere Frau“ – Prozesse der Geschlechterdifferenzierung auf der Führungsebene. In: Arbeits- und Industriesoziologische Studien, 13(2), 12-25

Bergmann, N., Scheele, A., & Sorger, C. (2019): Variations of the same? A sectoral analysis of the Gender Pay Gap in Germany and Austria. Gender, Work & Organization 26(5), 666-687.

Milner, S., Pochic, S., Scheele, A., & Williamson, S. (2019). Challenging gender pay gaps. Organizational and regulatory strategies. Gender, Work & Organization 26(5): 593-598.

Scheele, A. (2013). Frauenerwerbstätigkeit im Spannungsfeld von „Prekarisierung“ und „Guter Arbeit“ – Geschlechterpolitische Erweiterungen. „Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik“, 22. Jg., H. 3, S. 187-198.

Annesley, C. & Scheele, A. (2011). Gender, Capitalism and Economic Crisis: Impact and Responses across Europe. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Vol. 19, No. 3, 335-347.

Scheele, A. (2007). Gender and the quality of work: an overview of European and national approaches. In: Transfer. European Review of Labour and Research. Vol. 13, No. 4, 595-610.Other publications

Plomien, A., Scheele, A., & Sproll, M. (2022): Social Reproduction and State Responses to the Global Covid-19 Pandemic: Keeping Capitalism on the Move? In: Kupfer, A./Stutz, C. (Eds.): Covid, Crisis, Care, and Change? International Gender Perspectives on Re/ Production, State and Feminist Transitions. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, Online first: https://shop.budrich.de/wpcontent/uploads/2021/11/9783847425410_Plomien-et-al..pdf

Email: alexandra.scheele@uni-bielefeld.de