Biographical boundaries of work

• Authors: Agata Krasowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper contains an analysis of biographical interviews with the young precarious workers in Wrocław. The concept of the biographical boundaries of work is considered in the context of alienation, precarity, creativity and flexible employment. The biographical interviews collected include the views of the respondents on the situation of finding themselves in precarious work. The paper answers the questions of how individuals problematise the story of their own everyday life under the conditions of systemic uncertainty? By means of what mechanism are the boundaries of precarious work produced, or to what extent can the agency of informants be developed?

• 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: 189 - 198

Contributors

author

Agata Krasowska

• University of Wrocław