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The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland

:	Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Andrejuk, Marta Ko czy ska, K
:	The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783030136475
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This book describes the experience of joblessness and unemployment in contemporary Poland. It does so by combining qualitative and quantitative data from a special project conducted in Poland after the Great Recession and the long-term Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) to describe the lives of the jobless: women and men currently out of work, the recently re-employed, and housewives. The book uses a class and inequality perspective to investigate how these women and men became jobless, how they look for and find employment, their household and social activities, and their political participation. It contextualizes these experiences with a description of Poland's economy, labor market and employment policies after the fall of Communism and builds on the active interviewing and social constructionist approaches to explore the complex interviewer-respondent relationship.

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow received her PhD from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also the program manager for the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program of The Ohio State University and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Irina is co-Principal Investigator of a (US) National Science Foundation grant on cross-national survey data harmonization, and of a (Polish) National Science Centre grant on POLPAN. She is the lead author of the bookDynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland(CEU Press, 2018).

Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow received his PhD from The Ohio State University and is a Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also program coordinator for the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program of The Ohio State University and the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is co-author ofDynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland (CEU Press, 2018). His research on inequality has appeared inSocial Forces,Party Politics, andCurrent Sociology, among others.

Katarzyna Andrejuk is a sociologist and a lawyer, and is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She also worked as a visiting scholar at the European University Institute in Florence and Herder Institut in Marburg. Academic focus: qualitative research, migration studies, foreigners in the labour market and educational institutions, and Europeanisation. Her PhD dissertation concerned educational migrations from Poland to the UK after 2004, and her habilitation examined Ukrainian migrant entrepreneurs in Poland. She published two monographs and multiple journal articles, i.a. in theJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies andAsian and Pacific Migration Journal.

Anna Kiersztyn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. Her current research concerns the distribution, dynamics and social consequences of non-standard employment, and the relationship between alternative work arrangements and the quality of jobs. She is the author of several research articles analyzing the incidence and correlates of overeducation, low paid and unstable employment in the Polish economy. Her more recent work analyses the consequences of labor market precariousness with respect to economic and social security and political participation, with a focus on conditional relationships. Since 2005, Kiersztyn has also collaborated with the Team for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (CASIN) at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She has been involved in the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN project, analyzing long-term changes in the social and occupational structure of the Polish Society, as well as individual labor market trajectories.

Marta Ko czy ska is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from The Ohio State University in 2017. Her research interests include comparative analyses of political attitudes and behavior across nations and over time, as well as the methodology of comparative research, in particular cross-national surveys. Email: kolczynska.1@osu.edu

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski is professor emeritus of the Departments of Sociology and Political Science at The Ohio State University (OSU), and professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He is director of the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program of OSU and PAN, and co-PI of a (US) National Science Foundation grant on cross-national survey data harmonization. Maciek is co-author ofDynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland (CEU Press, 2018). He serves as director of the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) since 1988, and is co-PI of the 2017-2020 (Polish) National Science Centre grant on POLPAN.

	Preface and Acknowledgment	5
	Contents	7
	Chapter 1: Introduction: The Experience of Joblessness in Poland	11
	Defining Joblessness	12
	The Data: The Joblessness Study and the Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN	13
	Research Design in the Joblessness Project	14
	The Instrument	15
	Data Collection	16
	Theoretical Perspectives	16
	Social Constructions	16
	Social Class and Inequality	17
	Outline of the Book	18
	Our Contributions	18
	References	19
	Part I: Background of the Study	20
	Chapter 2: Economic Context, Labor Market Situation, and Employment Policies	21
	Building a New Society After 1989	21
	Waves of Unemployment in Post-communist Poland	22
	Poland and the Global Economic Crisis	25
	Migration and the Labor Market	26
	Labor Market Flexibility and Its Consequences	27
	Trash Contracts and Junk Jobs	30
	Over-Education and Under-Employment	33
	Precarity	34
	Unemployment Law in Poland	34
	Protection Against Dismissal from Work: Labor Code and Act on Group Dismissals	37
	Worker Protections	38
	Counteracting Effects of Unemployment: Statutory Provisions	38
	How Poland Defines Unemployment	40
	Counteracting Unemployment	40
	Unemployment Benefits in Poland	41
	Legal Profiles of the Jobless	42
	The Informal Labor Market, or Grey Zone	43
	State Programmes to Counteract the Effects Unemployment	43
	Summary	44
	References	45
	Websites	48
	Chapter 3: Joblessness Studies Since the 1930s in Poland and Abroad	49
	The Enduring Value of Marienthal and Polish Unemployment Research of the 1930s	50
	Memoirs of the Unemployed, 1930s	50
	Unemployment During State Socialism: A 45-year Break	52
	Polish Studies After 1989	53
	Memoirs of the Unemployed, 2000s	53
	Unemployment Experiences of the Young	54
	Personal Consequences of Being Jobless	55
	Being a Housewife	60
	Conclusion	61
	References	62
	Chapter 4: The Respondents, the Interviewers, and the Interview Situation	64
	The Respondents	64
	Subjective Joblessness	67
	The Interviewers	68
	Characteristics of the Interviewers	68
	Training of Interviewers	68
	The Interview Situation	70
	Cold Spell	70
	Part II: Routes into and Out of Joblessness	72
	Chapter 5: How I Lost My Job	73
	Gender, Class, and Entering Joblessness	73
	Methodological Considerations	75
	Interactions Between Interviewer and Respondent	75
	Paths to Joblessness	76
	Dismissals	77
	Structural Dismissal	77
	Non-structural Dismissal	80
	Dismissal After Maternity Leave	80
	Quitting	83
	Graduation	84
	Other	85
	Summary	86<