The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Anna Kiersztyn, Katarzyna Andrejuk, Marta Kołczyńska, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 179 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-13646-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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 of Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland (CEU Press, 2018). His research on inequality has appeared in Social Forces, Party Politics, and Current Sociology, among others.

Preface.- Introduction.- Part I. Background of the Study.- Chapter 1. The Experience of Joblessness: A Review of the Literature.- Chapter 2. Joblessness in Poland since 1989: Policies and Economic Situation.- Chapter 3. The Respondents, The Interviewers and the Interview Situation.- Part II. Routes into Joblessness.- Chapter 4. How I Became Unemployed.- Chapter 5. How I Became a Housewife.- Part III. Routes Out of Joblessness.- Chapter 6. Future Jobs.- Chapter 4. Looking for, and Finding a Job.- Part IV. Daily Life of the Jobless.- Chapter 8. Informal Jobs and Life at Home.- Chapter 9. Social and Political Activities of the Jobless.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.- Appendix A. Details about the Data and the Fieldwork Methodology.- Appendix B. The Survey Instrument.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.05.2019
Zusatzinfo	X, 179 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
Schlagworte	Becoming Unemployed in Poland • Housewives Experiences • Informal Jobs and Life at Home • Joblessness in Contemporary Poland • Joblessness in Poland, Central and Eastern Europe • Polish Panel Survey POLPAN • Routes into Joblessness in Poland • Routes Out of Joblessness in Poland • Social and Political Activities of the Jobless • Unemployment and Social Welfare Policies • Unemployment from a Sociological Perspective
ISBN-10	3-030-13646-9 / 3030136469
ISBN-13	978-3-030-13646-8 / 9783030136468
Zustand	Neuware