The book offers new insights into trust as a mode of social regulation in the workplace. The concept of reflexive, experience-based trust developed here provides access to trust beyond traditional familiarity and modern rational calculation. It explores the possibility and necessity of a cooperative labor policy despite antagonistic interests. A guiding thesis: The transformation of work leads to demands and potentials in labor policy that go beyond explicit and formal regulations. Trust in companies is usually related to the scope of action of employees and is thus discussed as trust from companies towards employees. In contrast, this work focuses on the trust of employees towards companies, which is especially necessary in self-responsible work. In five cases.