Petr Mezihorak
Biographic Data
| ID | 297166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petr Mezihorak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petr |
| FAMILY NAME | Mezihorak |
| SIGNATURE | MEZIHORAK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8296-8167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Representing and organising the solo self-employed in Europe: The emergence of a ‘relational representation’ from the combination of prefigurative and contentious politics
Collective representation is traditionally associated with employees, while solo self-employed (SSE) workers, in both regulated and unregulated professions, are usually considered to be autonomous and therefore not in need of representation. However, in recent years, the SSE have increasingly represented their interests collectively, although often outside traditional representative organisations such as trade unions, employer organisations, and …
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: Social Reproduction of '(Low) Skill
Refugees fleeing the Russian-Ukrainian war after receiving temporary protection visas in Czechia, which allowed free access to the labour market, found themselves in an ambiguous position between ‘refugees’ and ‘workers’. The new arrivals were mostly women with above-average education, but for a year or more after their arrival they were still working predominantly in jobs that were described as low-skilled. The aim of the article is to understan…
(Non)paradoxes of temporary protection: Ukrainian female refugees in search of their own time and place
Temporary protection status shapes the aspirations of its holders. It limits their future perspectives; however, this does not mean that it abolishes their agency. Previous research on temporary protection status schemes using a primarily transnational perspective has focused on how temporary protection status visa holders experience 'limbo' or 'permanent temporariness' but, by neglecting class, tended to overlook what happens to their position i…
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations
To date, the emergence of representation of hitherto under-represented workers has mainly been analysed in terms of strategic choices of traditional industrial relations actors. This study - focused on solo self-employed workers (SSE) - instead analyses the interactions between unions, employer organisations and new collective actors, namely SSE associations. More specifically, drawing on a comparative ethnography conducted in three European coun…
In search of alternatives for individualised workers: A comparative study of freelance organisations
This article contributes to the debate on the enterprise culture, which is characterised by the celebration of risk-taking and self-realisation, which in turn also implies self-responsibilisation and atomisation of the workforce. It does so by investigating organisations created with the aim of finding alternatives for freelancers, who epitomise the processes of individualisation typical of late capitalism. The organisations studied, both compani…
The Selection of the Chair of the Whistleblowers Protection Office in Slovakia as the Creation of State-Institutionalised Ethical-Political Agency
This article analyses the public hearing of candidates for the position of Chair of the Whistleblowers Protection Office in Slovakia in order to examine the hitherto overlooked issue of ethical-political agency that seeks to create an institution for the common good. Ethical political agency is the type of agency that transcends both the conception of institutions as dominant, taken-for-granted structures whose rules individuals tacitly follow, w…
Hybrid Areas of Work Between Employment and Self-Employment: Emerging Challenges and Future Research Directions
The growth of non-standard employment relations has created one of the major challenges in terms of workers' rights as well as collective representation in European societies. Among non-standard employment relations, so-called "solo self-employed"-self-employed workers without employees-are challenging the very foundations of our labor markets, that is to say the opposition between employers and employees, fostering the development of emerging "h…
Competition for control over the labour process as a driver of relocation of activities to a shared services centre
New approaches to studying multinational corporations sensitive to issues of power and politics often neglect the way power and politics in corporations shape workplaces, specifically labour processes and modes of their control. The article presents a case study of a firm’s relocation of activities to a shared services centre. The relationships among the shared services centre, its client departments and the headquarters involve an ongoing combin…
Hybrid Areas of Work Between Employment and Self-Employment: Emerging Challenges and Future Research Directions
The growth of non-standard employment relations has created one of the major challenges in terms of workers' rights as well as collective representation in European societies. Among non-standard employment relations, so-called "solo self-employed"-self-employed workers without employees-are challenging the very foundations of our labor markets, that is to say the opposition between employers and employees, fostering the development of emerging "h…
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations
To date, the emergence of representation of hitherto under-represented workers has mainly been analysed in terms of strategic choices of traditional industrial relations actors. This study - focused on solo self-employed workers (SSE) - instead analyses the interactions between unions, employer organisations and new collective actors, namely SSE associations. More specifically, drawing on a comparative ethnography conducted in three European coun…
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: Social Reproduction of '(Low) Skill
Refugees fleeing the Russian-Ukrainian war after receiving temporary protection visas in Czechia, which allowed free access to the labour market, found themselves in an ambiguous position between ‘refugees’ and ‘workers’. The new arrivals were mostly women with above-average education, but for a year or more after their arrival they were still working predominantly in jobs that were described as low-skilled. The aim of the article is to understan…
Competition for control over the labour process as a driver of relocation of activities to a shared services centre
New approaches to studying multinational corporations sensitive to issues of power and politics often neglect the way power and politics in corporations shape workplaces, specifically labour processes and modes of their control. The article presents a case study of a firm’s relocation of activities to a shared services centre. The relationships among the shared services centre, its client departments and the headquarters involve an ongoing combin…
(Non)paradoxes of temporary protection: Ukrainian female refugees in search of their own time and place
Temporary protection status shapes the aspirations of its holders. It limits their future perspectives; however, this does not mean that it abolishes their agency. Previous research on temporary protection status schemes using a primarily transnational perspective has focused on how temporary protection status visa holders experience 'limbo' or 'permanent temporariness' but, by neglecting class, tended to overlook what happens to their position i…
Competition for control over the labour process as a driver of relocation of activities to a shared services centre
New approaches to studying multinational corporations sensitive to issues of power and politics often neglect the way power and politics in corporations shape workplaces, specifically labour processes and modes of their control. The article presents a case study of a firm’s relocation of activities to a shared services centre. The relationships among the shared services centre, its client departments and the headquarters involve an ongoing combin…
Hybrid Areas of Work Between Employment and Self-Employment: Emerging Challenges and Future Research Directions
The growth of non-standard employment relations has created one of the major challenges in terms of workers' rights as well as collective representation in European societies. Among non-standard employment relations, so-called "solo self-employed"-self-employed workers without employees-are challenging the very foundations of our labor markets, that is to say the opposition between employers and employees, fostering the development of emerging "h…
In search of alternatives for individualised workers: A comparative study of freelance organisations
This article contributes to the debate on the enterprise culture, which is characterised by the celebration of risk-taking and self-realisation, which in turn also implies self-responsibilisation and atomisation of the workforce. It does so by investigating organisations created with the aim of finding alternatives for freelancers, who epitomise the processes of individualisation typical of late capitalism. The organisations studied, both compani…
The Selection of the Chair of the Whistleblowers Protection Office in Slovakia as the Creation of State-Institutionalised Ethical-Political Agency
This article analyses the public hearing of candidates for the position of Chair of the Whistleblowers Protection Office in Slovakia in order to examine the hitherto overlooked issue of ethical-political agency that seeks to create an institution for the common good. Ethical political agency is the type of agency that transcends both the conception of institutions as dominant, taken-for-granted structures whose rules individuals tacitly follow, w…
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations
To date, the emergence of representation of hitherto under-represented workers has mainly been analysed in terms of strategic choices of traditional industrial relations actors. This study - focused on solo self-employed workers (SSE) - instead analyses the interactions between unions, employer organisations and new collective actors, namely SSE associations. More specifically, drawing on a comparative ethnography conducted in three European coun…
Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: Social Reproduction of '(Low) Skill
Refugees fleeing the Russian-Ukrainian war after receiving temporary protection visas in Czechia, which allowed free access to the labour market, found themselves in an ambiguous position between ‘refugees’ and ‘workers’. The new arrivals were mostly women with above-average education, but for a year or more after their arrival they were still working predominantly in jobs that were described as low-skilled. The aim of the article is to understan…
(Non)paradoxes of temporary protection: Ukrainian female refugees in search of their own time and place
Temporary protection status shapes the aspirations of its holders. It limits their future perspectives; however, this does not mean that it abolishes their agency. Previous research on temporary protection status schemes using a primarily transnational perspective has focused on how temporary protection status visa holders experience 'limbo' or 'permanent temporariness' but, by neglecting class, tended to overlook what happens to their position i…
Representing and organising the solo self-employed in Europe: The emergence of a ‘relational representation’ from the combination of prefigurative and contentious politics
Collective representation is traditionally associated with employees, while solo self-employed (SSE) workers, in both regulated and unregulated professions, are usually considered to be autonomous and therefore not in need of representation. However, in recent years, the SSE have increasingly represented their interests collectively, although often outside traditional representative organisations such as trade unions, employer organisations, and …
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works)