Katarzyna Rakowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 4607776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarzyna Rakowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarzyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakowska |
| SIGNATURE | RAKOWSKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9845-1904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Precarity Between Law and Profit
This article examines how platform‐mediated food delivery work shapes the socio‐economic inclusion and exclusion of migrants in Italy, Poland, and Spain. Drawing on 60 in‐depth interviews with migrant riders in Turin, Warsaw, and Barcelona, the study adopts a comparative ethnographic approach to examine how distinct regulatory models—Italy’s “dual‐track,” Poland’s “contractual bricolage,” and Spain’s “regulated exclusion”—shape migrant inclusion …
Conflict and demobilisation
In 2019, Poland experienced a massive teachers’ strike that lasted three weeks. Although the strike had a great impact on many teachers, in the end, this three-week action failed to obtain any of its demands. Using the concepts of workers’ associational power and union legitimacy, I argue that one of the reasons for the loss was a crisis of legitimacy within the main union that organised the strike. Based on interviews with the strike participant…
Established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles in the care sector
This article analyses the struggles of care sector workers in recent years in Poland, mapping the activities of trade unions and initiatives undertaken by non-unionised workers in care services. It considers the institutional setting and barriers specific to Poland and analyses the constraints on industrial action in the sector by looking at different cases: nurses and midwives, early education teachers, nursery teachers and carers of persons wit…
Was it a strike? Notes on the Polish Women’s Strike and the Strike of Parents of Persons with Disabilities
Dwa znaczące protesty społeczne, które miały miejsce w Polsce w ostatnich latach – masowa mobilizacja kobiet przeciwko zakazowi aborcji i okupacja budynku Sejmu przez opiekunów osób niepełnosprawnych – nazywano strajkami. W artykule analizujemy wydarzenia związane ze Strajkiem Kobiet w 2016, 2017 i 2018 roku oraz strajk Rodziców Osób Niepełnosprawnych z 2018 roku, ujmując strajk jako formę protestu. Dlaczego obydwa protesty nazwano strajkami i ja…
Was it a strike? Notes on the Polish Women’s Strike and the Strike of Parents of Persons with Disabilities
Dwa znaczące protesty społeczne, które miały miejsce w Polsce w ostatnich latach – masowa mobilizacja kobiet przeciwko zakazowi aborcji i okupacja budynku Sejmu przez opiekunów osób niepełnosprawnych – nazywano strajkami. W artykule analizujemy wydarzenia związane ze Strajkiem Kobiet w 2016, 2017 i 2018 roku oraz strajk Rodziców Osób Niepełnosprawnych z 2018 roku, ujmując strajk jako formę protestu. Dlaczego obydwa protesty nazwano strajkami i ja…
Was it a strike? Notes on the Polish Women’s Strike and the Strike of Parents of Persons with Disabilities
Dwa znaczące protesty społeczne, które miały miejsce w Polsce w ostatnich latach – masowa mobilizacja kobiet przeciwko zakazowi aborcji i okupacja budynku Sejmu przez opiekunów osób niepełnosprawnych – nazywano strajkami. W artykule analizujemy wydarzenia związane ze Strajkiem Kobiet w 2016, 2017 i 2018 roku oraz strajk Rodziców Osób Niepełnosprawnych z 2018 roku, ujmując strajk jako formę protestu. Dlaczego obydwa protesty nazwano strajkami i ja…
Established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles in the care sector
This article analyses the struggles of care sector workers in recent years in Poland, mapping the activities of trade unions and initiatives undertaken by non-unionised workers in care services. It considers the institutional setting and barriers specific to Poland and analyses the constraints on industrial action in the sector by looking at different cases: nurses and midwives, early education teachers, nursery teachers and carers of persons wit…
Navigating Precarity Between Law and Profit
This article examines how platform‐mediated food delivery work shapes the socio‐economic inclusion and exclusion of migrants in Italy, Poland, and Spain. Drawing on 60 in‐depth interviews with migrant riders in Turin, Warsaw, and Barcelona, the study adopts a comparative ethnographic approach to examine how distinct regulatory models—Italy’s “dual‐track,” Poland’s “contractual bricolage,” and Spain’s “regulated exclusion”—shape migrant inclusion …
Conflict and demobilisation
In 2019, Poland experienced a massive teachers’ strike that lasted three weeks. Although the strike had a great impact on many teachers, in the end, this three-week action failed to obtain any of its demands. Using the concepts of workers’ associational power and union legitimacy, I argue that one of the reasons for the loss was a crisis of legitimacy within the main union that organised the strike. Based on interviews with the strike participant…
Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Bargaining power (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Care work (1 work)