Precarisation of work in the precarious world

• Authors: Iza Desperak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Precarisation of life and work is one of the fundamental challenges for researchers and practitioners. It influences not only employment relations, but all aspects of our lives. This article offers an empirical image of this phenomenon based on the research conducted in Łódź and its area. It was based on focus interviews with a group of young well educated city dwellers in Łódź, participatory observations among assembly line workers in a factory in the Łódź Special Economic Zone and the analysis of internet fora of workers. The comparison of those two groups may first of all illustrate a discussion on how deeply precarity influences contemporary employment relations and social life, but it also presents an opportunity to work out some solutions of a problem of how to live in the new precarious world.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Forum Socjologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue 1: Social boundaries and meanings of work in the 21st-century capitalism
• Pages: 165 - 172

Contributors

author

Iza Desperak

• University of Łódź