Day 1. 16 October 2024 (Wednesday)
OPEN DAY*
University of Wrocław Library, Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 12 St.
SESSIONS HELD IN POLISH (PL-EN, EN-PL interpretation provided)
9:00-9:30: Registration
9:30-10:00: Opening of the conference: Patrycja Matusz (Vice-Rector for Internationalisation of the University of Wrocław), Magdalena Ratajczak (Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, UWr), Katarzyna Kajdanek (Vice-director, Institute of Sociology, UWr), Adam Mrozowicki (Department of the Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology, IS UWr, Sociology of Work Section, Polish Sociological Association)
10:00-12:00: Workshop I: Working conditions of platform workers in Europe and the forthcoming Platform Work Directive (ERC ResPecTMe Awareness Workshop)
Chair: Bartosz Mika (University of Gdansk)
Introductory lecture: Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven), Karol Muszynski (University of Warsaw/KU Leuven)
Panelists: Barbara Surdykowska (NSZZ Solidarność / Solidarity ), Stanisław Kierwiak (OPZZ Konfederacja Pracy / Confederation of Labour) , Arkadiusz Krupicz (Pyszne.pl / JustEat Takeaway)
12:00-12:30: Coffee break
12:30-14:30: Workshop II: The ENDURE Community Resilience Lab. Labour migrants’ organizing in a post-pandemic world.
Chair: Olga Gitkiewicz (University of Wrocław, UWr)
Introductory lecture: Mateusz Karolak (UWr), Könül Jafarova (UWr)
Panelists: Ewa Flaszyńska / Marcin Wiatrów (Department of Labour Market, Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy) (on-line), Ignacy Jóźwiak (OZZ IP / Workers’ Initiative)
14:30-15:30: Lunch
15:30-17:30: Workshop III: (Un)usual crisis of public services: the COV-WORK project
Chair: Julia Kubisa (University of Warsaw)
Introductory lecture: Jacek Burski (University of Wrocław, UWr), Jan Czarzasty (SGH Warsaw School of Economics), Aleksandra Drabina-Różewicz (UWr), Alicja Palęcka (UW, SGH), Szymon Pilch (UWr), Adam Mrozowicki (UWr)
Panelists: Edyta Odyjas (NSZZ Solidarność / Solidarity), Zbigniew Żurek (Business Centre Club), Maria Magdalena Malinowska (OZZ IP / Workers’ Initiative), Jacek Pluta (UM Wrocław / Wrocław City Council)
17:30-18:00: Open Day Final Discussion
*The Open Day is supported by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant), grant agreement n° 833577 – Project ResPecTMe, NCN OPUS project COV-WORK funded by the National Science Centre in Poland (UMO-2020/37/B/HS6/00479) and the ENDURE project funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform and the National Science Centre in Poland (UMO-2021/03/Y/HS6/00167)
Day 2. 17 October 2024 (Thursday)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław, Koszarowa 3 St.
SESSIONS HELD IN ENGLISH
9:00-11:00 Plenary Session: Critical Labour Studies in the Times of Polycrisis (Auditorium A, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Agata Krasowska (University of Wrocław)
Michele Ford (University of Sydney): Collective Action in the Face of Democratic Regression: Lessons from Southeast Asia [on-line]
Callum Cant (University of Essex): Things can only get… worse: Workers’ experiences of ‘polycrisis’ in Britain
Valeria Pulignano (Catholic University of Leuven): Unpaid Labour and Inequality in Precarious Work
11:00-11:30 Coffee break (the Institute of Political Science)
11:30-13:30 Parallel thematic groups
G1. Continuity in crisis? Polycrisis and the world of work in Poland in 2020-2024 (Room: 203, the Institute of Sociology)
Chair: Mihai Varga (Free University of Berlin)
Discussant: Valeria Pulignano (Catholic University of Leuven)
Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wrocław): The (poly)crisis – game changer or continuation? Interlinked crises in the world of work
Mateusz Karolak (University of Wrocław), Alicja Palęcka (University of Warsaw): Do we need essential work? Unveiling narratives in and about essential sectors in Poland during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Juliusz Gardawski (SGH Warsaw School of Economics): The socio-economic consciousness of working Poles in the post-pandemic situation
Jan Czarzasty (SGH Warsaw School of Economics), Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wrocław): The revival of social dialogue or the trigger of social conflicts? Polycrisis in the Polish industrial relations
Jacek Burski, Agata Krasowska (University of Wroclaw): Biographical Experiences and Coping Strategies of Essential Workers in Healthcare, Social Care, Education and Logistics
G2. Migration, work and polycrisis (Room: 25, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Olga Czeranowska (SWPS University in Warsaw)
Tibor Meszmann, Olena Fedyuk (CELSI): Trapping workers’ consent? Temporary work agencies’ role in reproducing labour power of non-local workers for Hungarian manufacturing companies
Valeria Piro (University of Padova): Spaces of everyday solidarities. Collective forms of agency of unorganised migrant workers
Sara Bojarczuk, Dominika Pszczółkowska, Marek Okólski, Anita Brzozowska, Agnieszka Fihel, Kamil Matuszczyk (University of Warsaw): Employers’ interests in labour migration research – a conceptual framework within New Institutional Economics
Imran Sarihasan (Polish Academy of Sciences): How crises work as a barrier activator for immigrant entrepreneurship: case from Hungary during the COVID-19 pandemic
Aniela Partyga (University of Wrocław): Social psychoanalysis of a biography. The case of migrant workers in Poland
Snježana Gregurović, Margareta Gregurović, Simona Kuti, Sanja Klempić Bogadi, Sonja Podgorelec (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies/IMIN) Employment of migrant workers in Croatia: Between precarity and lack of policies
G3. Digital transformation at work (Room: 26, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Bartosz Mika (University of Gdansk)
Gabriela Julio-Medel, Devi Sacchetto (University of Padova): Italian and Polish workers’ positioning at the crossroads of the automotive technological transition
Dominika Polkowska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University): The end of the taxi as we know it? The role of fleet partners in professionalising the app-based driver profession.
Karol Muszyński (University of Warsaw), Valeria Pulignano (Catholic University of Leuven): Why labour platforms use different employment arrangements?
Mirosław Skorek (University of Silesia in Katowice): Transformation of operational activities of fire protection services in the field of IT technology
Deepa Kylasam Iyer (Cornell University), Francis Kuriakose (Impact and Policy Research Institute): Utopias and Crises at work: Exploring Creativity through End-game Scenarios of Artificial Intelligence [on-line]
Olga Gitkiewicz, Szymon Pilch (University of Wrocław): Giants on digital legs: How big tech platforms (GAFAM) are changing the world of work and labour struggles
G4. Capital, class and critical labour studies in contemporary academia (Room: 27, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Paul Stewart (Grenoble School of Management):
Miguel Martinez Lucio (University of Manchester): Social movements, communities and the renewal of worker representation: Myths, realities and possibilities in the building of connections
Sara Lafuente Hernández (European Trade Union Institute and ULB), Pedro Chaves Giraldo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): From ‘guinea pigs’ to actors: Participatory action research and its potential for trade union revitalization
Justyna Kajta (SWPS University in Warsaw): Bringing class into work. On the upwardly mobiles’ experiences in professional fields
Adam Ochwat (University of Warsaw): University, work, unions: the birth of a student-led union movement
Helena Antunes (University of Porto): (Re)configurations of the academic profession in times of polycrisis
Joanna “Asia” Tarach (independent activist): “What is your name?” Migrant identity in the light of the unique Belfast experience.
13:30-14:30 Lunch (the Institute of Political Science)
14:30-16:30 Plenary session: Sociology and Trade Unions: Collaboration across Boundaries (Auditorium A, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Julia Kubisa (University of Warsaw)
Paul Stewart (Grenoble School of Management): Critical labour Studies: origins and prospects in the age of neoliberal polycrisis
Jane Holgate (Leeds University Business School): Agents of curiosity. Why the union movement needs political education and critical thinking
Ignacy Jóźwiak (University of Warsaw): Work, workers’ rights and workplace organizing in the shadow of war: a transnational view on Ukraine
Ian Greer (Cornell University): Transgressing the boundaries of academic work in Ithaca, New York, USA [on-line]
16:30-17:00 Coffee break (the Institute of Political Science)
17:00-19:00 Parallel thematic groups
G5. Accessibility of the world of work for persons with disabilities (Room: 25, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Ewa Giermanowska (University of Warsaw)
Anna Drabarz (Polish Disability Forum), Wioleta Hryniewicka-Filipkowska (University of Białystok): The European Union as an inclusive employer of employees with disabilities – assessment of the compliance and effectiveness of the employment policies of selected EU institutions and bodies
Kamila Albin (University of Warsaw): Between social involvement and working for living: activism and the work in the narratives of women with disabilities
Magdalena Kocejko (SGH Warsaw School of Economics), Zbigniew Głąb (University of Lodz): Policy of professional activation of people with disabilities in Poland from the perspective of cruel optimism. A thing about unfulfilled promises
Jerzy Bielecki, Tomasz Płachecki (Educational Research Institute, IBE): Career guidance as a process to support the construction of educational and vocational pathways for learners with disabilities
Dorota Żuchowska-Skiba (AGH University of Krakow): The impact of technology on employment for people with disabilities
G6. ENDURE: Essentiality, inequality and livelihoods (Room: 203, the Institute of Sociology)
Chairs: Mihai Varga (Free University of Berlin), Mateusz Karolak (University of Wrocław)
Emina Bužinkić (Institute for Development and International Relations), Nina Čolović (Serb People’s Council): Female teachers in minoritized education in Croatia: precarity, nationhood, and the capitalist neoliberal grammar
Soner Barthoma (Uppsala University), Susan Beth Rottmann (Ozyegin University), The politics of waiting, contested belonging(s) and negotiated spaces: Precarious lives of migrant workers in Istanbul in times of Covid-19
Christian Fröhlich (Free University of Berlin): The role of biographical resources in how essential workers coped with the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Mateusz Karolak, Adam Mrozowicki, Könül Jafarova (University of Wroclaw): Navigating the Storm: The Lived Experiences and Coping Strategies of Migrant and Non-migrant Logistics Workers in Poland During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mihai Varga (Free University of Berlin): Boundary or underpinning? The social context of work in poor households
Aline Hasegawa (University of Campinas); Marina Fontolan (University of Texas); Leda Gitahy (University of Campinas): Vale do Ribeira, Serra da Bocaina, Complexo da Maré, and the Amazon: study cases on community resilience in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic [on-line]
Sofía Vinasco, Yenny Ramírez (National University of Colombia): Payment in advance: income, family and marks on the bodies of women returnees to Colombia [on-line]
G7. Emotions in organizations and professional work (Room: 26, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Justyna Kajta (SWPS University in Warsaw)
Martina Kolářová Veverková (Charles University in Prague): The Czech employees’ stories of the pandemic – work stress and sense-making in a complex social crisis
Teresa Ferreira (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon): Occupational burnout in public institutions – how new public management principles lead public servants to work-related suffering
Beata Pawłowska (University of Lodz): Emotions in the everyday medical staff work
G8. Care work in crises (Room: 27, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Dominika Polkowska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)
Patricia Ward (University of Bielefeld): Our bosses think we are ‘glorified warehouse workers’: logistics, labor and humanitarian aid
Franziska Baum (University of Hamburg): Care in crisis: platforms and self-employment in care: who’s dependent on whom?
Aniela Partyga (University of Wrocław): Class conditions for organising a trade union. Attitudes of caregivers in nursing homes in Wrocław
Jiahui HOU (Kobe University): The Actual Conditions of Job Seeking in the Domestic Service Industry: From the Perspective of Domestic Workers
Luca Villaggi (University of Padova), Samuel Maruszewski (University of Wrocław): Labouring citizenship. Welfare state transformations between Italy and Poland
20:00 Gala Dinner
Day 3. 18 October 2024 (Friday)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław, Koszarowa 3 St.
SESSIONS HELD IN ENGLISH
9:00-11:00 Parallel thematic groups
G9. (Re)Defining Work in the Internet Age: Unveiling Dynamics of Online Labor Markets (Room: 25, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Karol Muszynski (University of Warsaw)
Kamil Łuczaj, Aleksandra Drążczyk (University of Lodz): When does work happen for Internet content creators? Exploring work-for-labor, the intelligentsia habitus, and social legitimization
Kaja Kaźmierska (University of Lodz): Conflict of roles or conflict of discourses – the meaning of work in the narratives of large family mothers
Paweł Zalewski (University of Warsaw): Exploring the life trajectories and digital capital accumulation of micro-influencers
Lisa Yuk-ming LEUNG (Lingnan University, Hong Kong): Perceived ‘micro-aggression’ among racial minority workers across on and offline job sectors in Hong Kong
G10. The chronic crisis of precarious work (Room: 26, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Dominika Polkowska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)
Anna Kiersztyn (University of Warsaw), Katarzyna Kopycka (University of Lodz): „Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money” – prolonged fixed-term employment at labor market entry in Germany, Poland and the UK.
Beata Boór (University of Vienna): The value(s) of work for young people: analysing claims of age-based differences
Stefan Bieńkowski (University of Warsaw): “I’m better out of the system – on my own”: The Experience and Meaning of Non-standard Employment in Poland
Hanna Szalecka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan): Gastro-problems. Precarity of Polish cater workers
Ksawery Olczyk (Univerisity of Lodz): “Icarus Flight for Life”. – An analysis of the experience of precarious work in the stories of young food service workers
Klara Babińska (Lille University): What kind of autonomy for the “unemployable” in an experimental French Return-to-Work Program?
G11. Climate crisis and green transition (Room: 203, the Institute of Sociology)
Chair Szymon Pilch (University of Wrocław)
Vasiliki Krommyda (National Technical University of Athens), Stelios Gialis (University of the Aegean): Transforming labour regimes in the context of a socio-ecological fix: The case of lignite phase-out in Western Macedonia, Greece
Vassil Kirov, Rumiana Jeleva (Bulgarian Academy of Science): Not yet Green and Digital? The challenges faced by the construction sector in Bulgaria
Mauricio Torres (University of Pará – UFPA), Thais Borges de Farias (University of Pará, Brazil), Brian Garvey (University of Strathclyde): Mining the future: the porous boundaries of land and law
Stephanie Daher (Grenoble School of Management): When Sustainability initiatives and Indigenous Realities meet: Ontological Violence in the case of the ‘Paiter Suruí Carbon Credit REDD+ Project’
Lucas Cifuentes (University of Manchester): Clean Energy Transition on Whose Shoulders: The Experience of the Strike by Workers in the Atacama Salt Flat
G12. Professional groups in times of polycrisis – part I (Room: 27, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Justyna Zielińska (The Maria Grzegorzewska University)
Marta Gospodarczyk (University of Warsaw): Drought, war, and the European Union – narratives of interloping crises in the narratives of Polish farmers
Olga Czeranowska (SWPS University in Warsaw): Gender of career success? Definitions and experiences of career success in gender occupational minorities
Małgorzata Suchacka (University of Silesia in Katowice): The role of universities in shaping market attitudes of entrepreneurship
Hubert Kotarski, Agata Ludera-Ruszel (University of Rzeszów): Work-life balance – an analysis of the challenges of work-life balance among higher education staff
Cagatay Edgucan Sahin (Ordu University): Dynamics of labor market and employment practices on substandard vessels: An ethnographic inquiry
11:00-11:30 Coffee break (the Institute of Political Science)
11:30-13:30 Parallel thematic groups
G13. The world of work and therapeutic culture (Room: 203, the Institute of Sociology)
Chair: Agata Krasowska (University of Wrocław)
Katarzyna Waniek, Joanna Wygnańska (University of Lodz), Internet work as therapy
Andrzej Frączysty (University of Lodz): What is ‘worldwork’? The social in the perspective of therapeutic experts – the case of Process Oriented Psychology
Alicja Palęcka (University of Warsaw): Work refusal as self-care. Case studies of the practices of the Polish unemployed
Jerzy Stachowiak (University of Lodz): Practical interest in the subordinates’ psyche. On the problem of objectification
Jacek Gądecki, Katarzyna Hetmańczyk, Wojciech Kowalik (AGH University of Krakow): The harder the better. Makers practices as work and a hobby
G14. Popularization of remote work in critical perspective (Room: 25, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Olga Czeranowska (SWPS University in Warsaw)
Michelle Mielly (EM-Lyon School of Management), Lena Kurban Rouhana (American University of Dubai): Flexible work arrangements and liquid flexibility: dissolving boundaries at the work-life confluence
Zuzanna Kowalik (University of Warsaw): Working from home and job satisfaction: A mediating effect of organisational culture
Azad Heydarov (University of Wrocław): Navigating new norms: the intersection of digital nomadism, tourism, migration, and the socio-economic implications of health and housing vulnerabilities
Piotr Binder (Polish Academy of Sciences): Transformations of remote work in a longitudinal perspective – towards remote work models
G15. Professional groups in times of polycrisis – Part II (Room: 26, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Jacek Burski (University of Wroclaw)
Assaf Bondy (University of Bristol), Ronen Mandelkern (Tel-Aviv University): An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions
Bartosz Mika, Wiktor Sokół (University of Gdansk): Professionalization as a social process. Creation of the occupation on the example of physiotherapists in Poland
Michał Cebula (University of Wrocław): Social class, working conditions and resilience to crisis: An analysis of the Polish class structure
Justyna Zielińska (The Maria Grzegorzewska University): Job quality in the professions of psychotherapists and psychiatrists in contemporary Poland
G16. How the labour market turned the University into a student factory (Room: 27, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Aniela Partyga (University of Wrocław)
Małgorzata Damek (University of Wrocław): Feminisation in higher education
Adrian Prokopczyk, Piotr Woźniak (University of Wrocław): Changes in university infrastructure and its consequences for students
Pola Melonowska (University of Warsaw): Celebrations in a student factory: the loss of collective joy and rituals on Juwenalia festivities in Poland
Stefan Zaleski (Polish Academy of Sciences): Labor taxation as a source of social inequalities
13:30-14:30 Lunch (the Institute of Political Science)
14:30-16:30 Plenary session: Challenges and Perspectives of the Critical Labour Studies (Auditorium A, the Institute of Political Science)
Chair: Adam Mrozowicki (University of Wrocław)
David Ost (Hobart and William Smith Colleges): Why Workers Often Oppose Democracy?
Bridget Kenny (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg): Trade unions and logistics in South Africa: Racial capitalism returned or new routes to organising?
Julia Kubisa (University of Warsaw): Rules of engagement? Positioning the practice of public sociology in industrial relations research and cooperation with trade unions
16:30 – 17:00: Closing remarks (Auditorium A, the Institute of Political Science)