Martin Krzywdzinski is head of the project group "Globalization, Work and Production" at the Berlin Social Research Center (WZB) (http://www.wzb.eu/de/personen/martin-krzywdzinski). He completed his PhD thesis about labor and social policy in Poland at the Free University in Berlin in 2007. He worked in several international research projects about the changing international division of labor in Europe and the new emerging economies in the BRICs. Since 2012 he is member of the Steering Committee of the GERPISA research network (The International Network of the Automobile).