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The Arbeitskreis für Moderne Sozialgeschichte e.V. (Work Group for Modern Social History e.V.) was founded by Werner Conze in Heidelberg in 1957. The aim of this group of historians, social scientists, theologians and lawyers was, and still is, to reflect and argue openly about questions, theoretical approaches and methods of social history.

Today, the roughly thirty members of this group are primarily concerned with repositioning core questions about social structures and practices within a global history perspective. As part of the current focus on "Globalizations: Historical Perspectives", the working group discusses, for example, the forms that labor takes in global capitalism, how bourgeois middle classes also emerge as a result of global socialization or how financialization affects the state and society.  

The working group meets twice per year, since Fall 2019 at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, and has been publishing the "Industrielle Welt" (Industrial World) series since 1962, which has been published by Brill/Böhlau/Vandenhoeck since 2020.