Selected publications

2025

Puder, Janina (2025): The world's largest shipping company dominates the Port of Hamburg. Available online at: https://jacobin.de/artikel/hamburger-hafen-privatisierung-msc-hhla-peter-tschentscher

2024

Book and magazine articles

Puder, Janina (2024): Globalisation, overexploitation, migration and ecological crisis. In: Kastrup, Wolfgang/ Kellershohn, Helmut (ed.): Multiple crises. Capitalist crisis dynamics and geopolitical upheavals. Edition of the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research. Münster: Unrast Verlag, pp. 82-97.

Puder, Janina/ Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora/ Sarbo, Bafta (2024): Overexploitation - A conceptual and historical overview. In: Z.-Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, 138 (2024), pp. 15-29.

Puder, Janina/ Pye, Oliver (2024): Migrant Workers For Future? In favour of considering migrant workers in the debate on socio-ecological transformation using the example of the palm oil industry. In: Carstensen, Lisa/ Birke, Peter/ Huke, Nikolai (eds.): Migration and Labour. Conflicts in the field of tension between racism, class and gender relations. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa-Verlag, pp. 43-60.

2023

Book and journal articles

Puder, Janina/ Tittor, Anne (2023): Bioeconomy as a Promise of Development? The cases of Argentina and Malaysia. In: Sustainability Science 18 (2023), pp. 617-631, doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01284-y

Puder, Janina/Lucht, Kim (2023): "For something to really change, a political strike would actually have to happen!" The political strike as an (eco)socialist transformation strategy? In: Lucht, Kim/Deppe, Frank/Dörre, Klaus (eds.): Socialism in the 21st century. Hamburg: VSA, pp. 205-220.

Puder, Janina (2023): Limitless squeezing of labour power. Available online at https://kritisch-lesen.de/essay/grenzenlose-auspressung-von-arbeitskraft

2022

Monographs

Puder, Janina (2022): Accumulation - Overexploitation - Migration. Labour in the Malaysian palm oil industrial complex. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus Verlag.

Book and journal articles

2022

Puder, Janina (2022): Cheap Labour, (Un)Organised Workers: The Oppressive Exploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry. In: Bauer, Rolf/ van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise (eds.): Precarious, Pressured, but Persistent: Global Agricultural Workers from Early Modern Times to the Present. Leiden: Brill, pp. 438-461. doi.org/10.1163/9789004529427_018

Kagarlitsky, Boris/ Puder, Janina/Schmalz, Stefan (2022): "The whole world is becoming more like Russia." A conversation on deglobalisation in the wake of the war in Ukraine. In: Berlin Journal of Sociology 22(3), pp. 489-502.

Häckermann, Andreas/ Bernroider, Lucie/ Puder, Janina/ Seyd, Benjamin (2022): Editorial. What does "systemically relevant" mean? In: Berlin Journal of Sociology 32 (1), pp. 1-6.

Schreiber, Genevieve/ Puder, Janina (2022): Racism: class in the context of racism. In: Graf, Jakob/ Lucht, Kim/ Lütten, John (eds.): Die Wiederkehr der Klassen, Frankfurt a.M./ New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 55-89.

Graf, Jakob/ Puder, Janina (2022): Class relations in the peripheries of the world system. In: Graf, Jakob/ Lucht, Kim/ Lütten, John (eds.): Die Wiederkehr der Klassen, Frankfurt a.M./ New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 195-230.

2021

Puder, Janina (2021): Superexploitation in Bio-based Industries: The Case of Oil Palm and Labour Migration in Malaysia. In: Backhouse, Maria/ Lehmann, Rosa/ Lorenzen, Kristina/ Lühmann, Malte/ Puder, Janina/ Rodríguez, Fabricio/ Tittor, Anne (eds.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-215. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5_10

Backhouse, Maria/ Lehmann, Rosa/ Lorenzen, Kristina/ Puder, Janina/ Rodríguez, Fabricio/ Tittor, Anne (2021): Introduction: Contextualising the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-Ecological Inequalities. In: Backhouse, Maria/ Lehmann, Rosa/ Lorenzen, Kristina/ Lühmann, Malte/ Puder, Janina/ Rodríguez, Fabricio/ Tittor, Anne (eds.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3-22. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5_1

Backhouse, Maria/ Lehmann, Rosa/ Lorenzen, Kristina/ Lühmann, Malte/ Puder, Janina/ Rodríguez, Fabricio/ Tittor, Anne (eds.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5

Pye, Oliver/ Arianti, Fitri/ Assalam, Rizal/ Haug, Michaela/ Puder, Janina (2021): Just Transition in the Palm Oil Industry: A Preliminary Perspective. TPOLS.

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Puder, Janina (2021): Migrant labour in the Malaysian palm oil industry. Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), policy brief "Immigration, Flight and Asylum: Current Issues". www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/kurzdossiers/324971/migrantische-arbeitskraefte-in-der-malaysischen-palmoelindustrie

Lehmann, Rosa/ Backhouse, Maria/ Puder, Janina (2020): Appealing goals. The German government's new bioeconomy strategy. In: W&E 01-02/2020, p. 5-6. www.weltwirtschaft-und-entwicklung.org/wearchiv/042ae6ab7b09b2d01.php

2020

Puder, Janina/ Tittor, Anne (2020): Bioeconomy in Argentina and Malaysia Industrial upgrading in the agricultural sector as a socio-ecological development promise? In: PERIPHERIE - Politics, Economics, Culture, Vol. 40, No. 159/160, pp. 308-333. www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/peripherie/article/view/36617

Puder, Janina (2020): Development, Labour Market Segregation and Class Structure in Malaysia. A political economy of labour migration. In: Social.History Online, 26(2020), pp. 45-70. sozialgeschichteonline.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/04_puder_arbeitsmigration _malaysia-1.pdf

Graf, Jakob/ Landherr, Anna/ Puder, Janina/ Rackwitz, Hans/ Reitz, Tilman/ Seyd, Benjamin/ Sittel, Johanna/ Tittor, Anne (2020): Dependence in the 21st century. Global material flows and the international division of labour. In: PROKLA. Journal for Critical Social Science 198, pp. 11-32.

2019

Puder, Janina (2019): Excluding migrant labour from the Malaysian bioeconomy: Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the palm oil sector in Sabah. In: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12(1), pp. 31-48. aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/2253/2061

2018

Puder, Janina (2018): Introducción, in: Schmalz, Stefan/ Ramírez, Martin (eds.) (2018): ¿Fin de la Bonanza? Entradas, salidas y encrucijadas del extractivismo, Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblios, pp. 53-55.

Kunz, Yvonne/ Puder, Janina (2018): Unloved career of a palm tree. Indonesia and Malaysia at loggerheads with the EU. In: iz3w (368), Sept/Oct 2018, pp. 17-18.

Selected lectures and organisation of conferences

Co-organiser (together with Prof. Anja Weiß) of the panel: "Inequalities of Access and Cross Border Labor Markets" at the 5th International Conference of the International Association of Sociology in Rabat (Morocco), 6-11 July 2025

Presentation at the 5th International Conference of the International Association of Sociology in Rabat (Morocco), 6-11 July 2025, on the topic: Work and Environmental Awareness at the Bottleneck of Global Trade: Perspectives of Port Workers on the Ecology of the Global Division of Labour. Conceptional remarks and preliminary empirical evidence.

Together with Jule E. Westerheide (Ruhr-University Bochum) presentation at the 43rd International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) from 23-25.04.2025 in Santiago (Chile) on the topic: Contested Port Labor in times of ecological and economic crisis: Insights into Workers' Perspectives and Practices amid Structural Change.

Presentation at the research colloquium "Neoliberalización, cambio tecnológico, extracción y logística - Nuevos y viejos desafíos para el sector portuario frente al cambio geopolítico" in Valparaíso (Chile), on the topic: Contested Port Labour in times of ecological and economic crisis, 13 March 2025.

Presentation at the international ISA conference "International Political Economy - Labour Migration" in Duisburg (ISA) on the topic "The Superexploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry" on 18.07.2024.

Lecture at the research colloquium of the BMBF junior research group "Meat the Bioeconomy", on the topic "Conceptual and empirical remarks on Superexploitation", on 29 May 2024 at the University of Hamburg.

Co-organiser 03-05.04.2024: Special Stream "Labour and Migration: Recomposition, Regulation and Conflicts at the Point of Production and Beyond" together with Georg Barthel, Linda Beck, Peter Birke, Felix Bluhm, Laura Bremert, Samia Dinkelaker, Anita Heindlmeier, Jaqueline Kalbermatter, Benjamin Herr, Johanna Neuhauser and Christian Sperneac-Wolfer at the 42nd International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Göttingen.

Co-organiser of the transformation workshop "Sustainability" in cooperation with the Kassel Institute for Sustainability, 11-13.01.2024, in Kassel.

Lecture at the RLS conference: "The (un)making oft he working class - Current dynamics of class formation in Germany" on the topic: "Project class analysis Jena - gaps and insights", Berlin on 15 December 2023.

Lecture at the DISS defence on "Globalisation, Overexploitation, Migration" on 18.11.2023 in Duisburg.

Lecture at the CPERN mid-term conference in Naples with the title: "Superexploitation in the wake of capitalist crisis", on 8-10 June 2023.

Lecture at the international Historical Materialism Conference in London from 09-11 November 2023 on the topic: "Superexpolitation in Global Capitalism. The Case of Labour Migration", on 09.11.2023.

Lecture at the Racial Capitalism Conference at the University of Kassel, 5-6 October 2023 on the topic: "Überausbeutung. A plea for a Marxist conceptual (further) development", on 6 October 2023.

Lecture at the Marxist Labour Week at the IfS in Frankfurt a.M. on the topic: "Von Überausgebeuteten und ihren Kämpfen. A plea for a Marxist (further) development of concepts, 27 May 2023.

Lecture at the "World-Ecology Conference" on the topic: "Cheap palm oil, cheap migrant labour? The superexploitation of migrant workers in the palm oil industry", Bonn, 09.06.2022.

Lecture at the research colloquium of the Department of Labour, Industrial and Economic Sociology of the Institute of Sociology together with Dr Oliver Pye on the topic: "Die Überausbeutung von Arbeitsmigrant*innen im Palmöl-Industriellen-Komplex und Perspektiven auf eine Just Transition", Jena, 06.01.2022.

"Migrant workers in the palm oil sector in the wake of a Malaysian Bioeconomy" Presentation at the international conference organised by the BMBF junior research group "Bioeconomy and Social Inequalities", Jena, 25-27.06.2019.

"Transnational rural labour relations in the context of the emerging Bioeconomy in Malaysia by the example of migratory labour" at the ITH conference "Arbeit auf dem Land: AkteurInnen, Gesellschaften und Umwelten", Linz/ Upper Austria, 5-7.09.2019.

"The social and ecological question." An outline of the problem in the context of the panel "Class and nature relations The social and the ecological question: divergences, convergences, interactions" with Thomas Barth, Ulrich Brand, Kristina Dietz and Hans Rackwitz at the DGS conference "Great Transformation: The future of modern societies", Jena, 23-27 September 2019.

Special Session: "Bioeconomic Imaginaries and their Place - Mentalities and Political Strategies in multiple contexts across societies and regions" together with Dennis Eversberg, Malte Lühmann and Anne Tittor at the 6th International Degrowth Conference, Malmö, 21-24 August 2018.

Research

Guest Prof. Dr phil. Janina Puder is currently researching structural change in the port in the context of multiple transformation dynamics from a transnational comparative perspective. Her key research areas include: socio-ecological transformation, political economy, capitalism theory, social class and class theory, and labour migration. She received her doctorate with a dissertation on the over-exploitation of migrant labour in Southeast Asia. Her research is characterised by a transnational, empirically grounded perspective. Based on theories from the sociology of labour and political economy, she combines interdisciplinary approaches from the theory of social inequality, socio-spatial debates in sociology and political ecology.

Main areas of research and teaching

• Labour and conflicts in the socio-ecological transformation
• Political economy and capitalism theory
• Social classes and class theory
• Labour migration
• Qualitative methods
• Teaching: Introduction to empirical social research, Introduction to economic sociology