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PREWORK: Młodzi pracownicy prekaryjni w Polsce i Niemczech. Materiały jakościowe z Polski
No full textZbiór zawiera wybrane materiały z jakościowego modułu projektu badawczego pt. „Młodzi pracownicy prekaryjni w Polsce i Niemczech: socjologiczne studium porównawcze warunków pracy i życia, świadomości społecznej i aktywności obywatelskiej” (PREWORK). Celem projektu była teoretyczna i empiryczna analiza konsekwencji prekarnych warunków pracy i życia młodych pracowników w Polsce i Niemczech.Jakościowy moduł badania zrealizowano metodą biograficznego wywiadu narracyjnego Fritza Schützego. Cele tej części obejmowały przede wszystkim: (1) odtworzenie całościowych doświadczeń młodych pracowników w sferze pracy oraz poza nią, relacji między nimi oraz sposobów ich prezentacji w wywiadach, (2) zbadanie relacji między prekaryjnym zatrudnieniem a wzorami interpretacji indywidualnych karier i doświadczeń zawodowych, (3) zrozumienie form indywidualnego i zbiorowego sprawstwa młodych pracowników prekaryjnych i ich powiązań z całością doświadczeń biograficznych, (4) przeanalizowanie potencjału aktywności obywatelskiej i zaangażowania społecznego młodych ludzi, w szczególności w odniesieniu do działań wypływających z doświadczeń prekaryzacji pracy, (5) zrozumienie znaczenia więzi społecznych (kapitału społecznego), a także zasobów ekonomicznych, społecznych i kulturowych w kształtowaniu strategii ludzi młodych wobec pracy prekaryjnej.Wywiady przeprowadzono z osobami w wieku 18–35 lat, które spełniały jedno lub kilka z następujących kryteriów: pracowały w ramach umów niestandardowych (tj. bez umowy o pracę na czas nieokreślony), miały niskie zarobki, były bezrobotne, realizowały bezpłatne lub niskopłatne staże lub z innych względów poddane były procesom prekaryzacji. W skład niniejszego zbioru wchodzą 32 zanonimizowane wywiady zebrane w Polsce przez zespół pod kierunkiem Adama Mrozowickiego z udziałem następujących osób: Magdalena Andrejczuk, Jacek Burski, Aleksandra Drabina-Różewicz, Agata Krasowska, Mateusz Karolak (początkowo także: Olga Czeranowska, Katarzyna Jarguz i Karolina Szczepaniak). Materiały gromadzono w latach 2016–2017 we Wrocławiu, Warszawie, Radomiu, Wałbrzychu, Łodzi, w dwóch miasteczkach oraz jednej wsi. Łącznie przeprowadzono 73 wywiady biograficzne, z czego do analiz zakwalifikowano 63. Nie wszystkie osoby badane wyraziły zgodę na archiwizację pochodzących od nich materiałów.Większości udostępnianych w ADJ wywiadów towarzyszy komplet materiałów dodatkowych: (a) nota o wywiadzie, (b) portret biograficzny osoby badanej, (c) podsumowanie analityczne w języku angielskim, (d) kwestionariusz zawierający informacje o sytuacji życiowej i rodzinnej osoby badanej.Zbiór danych powstał w ramach finansowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki oraz Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft projektu PREWORK („Młodzi pracownicy prekaryjni w Polsce i Niemczech: socjologiczne studium porównawcze warunków pracy i życia, świadomości społecznej i aktywności obywatelskiej”) nr umowy NCN: UMO-2014/15/G/HS4/04476, DFG: TR1378/1-1.___The dataset was produced within the project PREWORK (“Young precarious workers in Poland and Germany: a comparative sociological study on working and living conditions, social consciousness and civic engagement”) funded by the National Science Centre in Poland and the German Research Foundation (DFG), the NCN project number UMO-2014/15/G/HS4/04476, the DFG project number TR1378/1-1.</p
Linking Structural and Agential Powers: A Realist Approach to Biographies, Careers and Reflexivity
No full textBiographical Work as a Mechanism of Dealing with Precarity and Precariousness
Full text linkThe article aims to explore the relationship between biographical work and the strategies of managing precarity (low-paid and unstable employment) and precariousness (insecurity and instability of life conditions in general) in Poland’s new capitalism. Poland witnessed the rise of precarity during the entire capitalist transformation after 1989, while the expansion of precarious, temporary, and non-standard employment accelerated in the first two decades of the 21st century. The main theoretical framework of the article is based on concepts deriving from biographical sociology and was elaborated during a joint workshop with German biographical researcher, Fritz Schütze, within the PREWORK project. The case of a young female shop assistant, Helena, with a difficult family and work background was selected from a larger sample of 63 biographical narrative interviews with precarious young workers in Poland. Based on the case study and the broader context of the research project, it is argued that biographical work may have the potential for questioning and challenging precarity; yet, without necessary biographical and social resources, such a process is hard to be completed. As a result, the paper questions the macrosocial vision of “precariat” as the “class in-the-making” and instead offers a detailed account of the microsocial ways of dealing with precarity by a representative of the most disadvantaged group of precarious young workers
Whither „Green Island”? The Global Economic crisis in Polish sociological research
No full textThe article presents selected aspects of the discussion about the conditions and consequences of global economic crisis in Polish sociology. The author argues that the relatively limited debate on the nature of the current crisis can be explained by two factors. Firstly, it is the consequence of the dominance of modernisation paradigm in the analysis of the Polish social transformation as well as the marginalisation of two sociologies: critical labour sociology and economic sociology. Secondly, drawing on research carried out by the author on working-class life strategies in the 2000s, the limited debate is the outcome of social “normalisation” and “adaptation” to crisis experiences in the Polish society. Despite the symptoms of collective “demobilisation” in the face of successive crises, adaptation to crises has its social limits. The discourse of global economic crisis contributes to new forms of collective mobilisation in the sphere of work and politics regardless of the dominance of individualistic coping strategies inherited from the first decades of transformation. The “counter-movement” taking place in Poland is expressed in trade union radicalisation and mobilisation of radical-nationalist movements. Both processes are interpreted by the author with the reference to Karl Polanyi’s work as the manifestations of self-defence of the society against the expansion of socially uncontrolled market mechanisms
Social Dialogue as a European social field. Setting up a “critical realist” explanatory framework of the practices of the European Works Councils in multinationals in Europe
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Alternative trade union organizing of migrant workers in Northern Ireland in the wake of the Good Friday agreement
Full text linkThe paper deals with an organised labour response to recent migration to Northern Ireland from the New Member States (NMS) following EU enlargement in 2004. A trade union’s approach to the problems confronting migrant workers is analyzed in the context of neo-liberal reforms of the labour market and shrinking of the welfare state. These changes have taken place in the context of a specific region still struggling to overcome the legacy of a long-lasting conflict from the 1960s until 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Furthermore, an innovative approach to migrant workers organising combining elements of solidarity and membership mobilisation and aiming at promoting a political and class solidaristic cross-sectarian agenda developed by the Independent Workers’ Union (IWU) is examined. e results are based on a research programme undertaken by the IWU to uncover the nature of the relationship between migrants, labour market changes and the trajectory of sectarianism in the north
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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