Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer
Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer, an economist and political scientist, was a professor of “Globalization & Politics” at the University of Kassel from 2000 to 2022. He served as spokesperson for the International Center for Development and Decent Work, which received the DAAD Award for Excellence in Development Cooperation, and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Labour University (GLU), which provides master’s-level training in political science and economics to trade unionists across four continents. He remains an associate member of the GLU and the Kassel Institute for Sustainability, which he co-founded. His expertise encompasses the international political economy of commodity and financial flows, with a focus on their social dimensions. At the HWR Competence Center, he is involved in Cluster B – Growth Regimes, Social Blocs, and Value Chains.
Forschungsfelder:
- Power in supply chains
- Working conditions in supply chains
- U.S. trade policy
- Sustainable finance
Selected Publications:
Scherrer 2026: Work at Sea – Precarious Despite Regulation. Journal of Labor and Society (published online ahead of print 2026). https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10191
Scherrer 2026: Die politische Ökonomie von Trumps Zöllen, PROKLA Bd. 56, Nr. 1, 145-166.
Scherrer 2026: Ungeeignet für die Energiewende – Freiwillige Emissionszertifikate zur vorzeitigen Stilllegung von Kohlekraftwerken, Extractivism Policy Brief 1/2026, Universität Kassel. https://extractivism.de/publikationen/extractivism-policy-briefs/ungeeignet-fuer-die-energiewende-freiwillige-emissionszertifikate-zur-vorzeitigen-stilllegung-von-kohlekraftwerken/
Scherrer 2025: Theoretical Perspectives on the Mission Drift of Public Sector Banks: The German Case, in: Competition & Change. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251338393
Scherrer 2025: Arbeit auf See – Trotz Regulierung prekär, in: WSI-Mitteilungen 78(6) 434-442. DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2025-6-434
Scherrer 2025: Geopolitische Umbrüche: Wirtschaftliche Herausforderungen für Deutschland, in: WSI-Mitteilungen 98(3) 171-178. doi.org/10.5771/0342-300X-2025-3-171
Karatepe, Ismail Doga and Scherrer (eds.) 2025: Work in the Supply Chain: Decent Work Deficits in Ports and on Ships, Baden Baden: Nomos.
Scherrer 2025: Fehlende produktive Beschäftigung. Koloniales Erbe und postimperialistische Praktiken, PROKLA Bd. 55, Nr. 218, 13-32
Karatepe, Ismail Doga and Scherrer (eds.) 2025: Work in the Supply Chain: Decent Work Deficits in Ports and on Ships, Baden Baden: Nomos.
Moore, Madelaine, Scherrer, Marcel van der Linden (eds.) 2025: The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Scherrer, 2025: Early Retirement of Coal Power Plants through Voluntary Carbon Credits? The case of ACEN in the Philippines. Discussion Paper No. 2025-05, UP School of Economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman. https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/upsedp/index.php/dp/article/view/1564/1050
Scherrer und Ismail Doga Karatepe (Hrsg.) 2024: Arbeit in der Lieferkette. Miserable Arbeitsbedingungen auf See und in den Häfen, Hamburg, VSA Verlag.
Karatepe, Ismail Doga, and Scherrer 2024: The Selective Return of Labor Casualization in Western European Ports, in: Sociologia del Lavoro 169(2) 52-72. DOI: 10.3280/SL2024-169003
Karatepe, Ismail Doga, and Scherrer 2024: Smallholders Challenges of Social and Economic Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains: A Cross-Country, Cross-Crop Comparison, in: Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 13(3), 317-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/22779760241261445
Scherrer 2023: Beyond the Dyad: Power Relations in Global Exploitation Chains from an Institutionalist and Gramscian Perspective, in: Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power, 3(2) 115–147. https://brill.com/view/journals/powr/3/2/article-p115_002.xml
Scherrer, 2021: Macht in weltweiten Lieferketten, Hamburg, VSA.
Karatepe, Ismail Doga and Scherrer (eds.) 2021: The Phantom of Upgrading in Agricultural Supply Chains: A Cross-Country, Cross-Crop Comparison of Smallholders, Nomos.