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Biographical Work as a Mechanism of Dealing with Precarity and Precariousness

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Burski J., Mrozowicki A., Drabina-Różewicz A., Krasowska A.

Qualitative Sociology Review

2022

vol. 18

issue 2

90-111

The 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.

Biographical Experiences of Post-Socialist Transformation in Corporate Business: Doing the Neoliberal Path

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Domecka M.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

2016

vol. 12

issue 2

56-77

The neoliberal order, introduced in Poland in the course of post-socialist transformation, constituted a context of action, as well as a repertoire of rules and practices people becoming corporate managers had to learn to cope with. As some took it for granted as ‘the only’ way of joining the economies of the idealised ‘West’, and through their daily practices of efficiency and profit-maximisation, they were actually doing the neoliberalism; others, maintaining the distance towards the new world of ‘freedom and opportunity’ managed to develop a more critical stand. These were not actively doing neoliberalism, but merely making do with it, taking it strategically or even instrumentally. In the paper, the role of biographical work and biographical knowledge is analysed in the process of distancing, which enables monitoring and negotiations of the relations between the acting self and the neoliberal context of action.

Porządek neoliberalny, wprowadzony w Polsce w procesie postsocjalistycznej transformacji, stanowił kontekst działania oraz repertuar zasad i praktyk, z którymi nowi korporacyjni menadżerowie musieli się zmierzyć. O ile część z nich traktowała ten nowy porządek jako „oczywisty” i będący „jedyną” drogą pozwalającą dołączyć do grona gospodarek wyidealizowanego Zachodu i przez swoje codzienne praktyki nakierowane na efektywność i maksymalizację zysku w istocie tworzyła neoliberalizm, inni, zachowując dystans do nowego świata „wolności i możliwości”, zdołali wypracować bardziej krytyczne stanowisko. Ci drudzy więc nie tworzyli aktywnie neoliberalizmu, lecz uczyli się z nim żyć, podchodząc do niego strategicznie lub nawet instrumentalnie. W artykule tym wyeksponowana zostaje rola pracy biograficznej i wiedzy biograficznej w procesie dystansowania się, który umożliwia monitorowanie i negocjowanie relacji pomiędzy działającym podmiotem a neoliberalnym kontekstem działania.

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