Abstract
Logistical labor is that which remains after the surplus of post-industrial labor has been cast aside. One hundred and thirty-five thousand workers applied for a job at the Zaha Hadid designed BMW plant in Leipzig, which opened in 2005. Only 5,500 were offered jobs. Three thousand more have since filled the ranks of temp workers. As a former GDR city that reemerged from the ruins of the Second World War, Leipzig was ravaged again with the reunification of Germany, which precipitated the collapse of many of its former state-run industries. By the turn of the new century, unemployment rates were still approximately double that of western Germany. Unemployment in Leipzig in 2018 now sits somewhere around ten per cent, recovering somewhat from the high levels of fifteen per cent in recent years.
| Translated title of the contribution | BMW factory, automated labor and the logistical state |
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| Original language | German |
| Title of host publication | Holen und Bringen = Fetch and Deliver |
| Editors | Juliane Schickedanz |
| Place of Publication | Germany |
| Publisher | Verlag Für Moderne Kunst |
| Pages | 38-41 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783903269149 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |