The Case of a Car Assembly Plant in Poland 2016/4
JUSTYNA KAJTA AND ADAM MROZOWICKI Trade Union Strategies in a Time of Economic Crisis: the Case of a Car Assembly Plant in Poland 2016/4 WORKING PAPER SERIES ABOUT THE PROJECT This study was prepared in the larger framework of “The Changing Nature of Employment in Europe in the Context of Challenges, Threats, and Opportunities for Employees and Employers” initiative (http://www.changingemployment.eu). The ChangingEmployment program is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission between 2012-2016. This paper focuses on Poland, and is part of a series of studies on trade union strategies in the automotive sector in Eastern Europe. Other studies in the series focus on Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. ABOUT THE PAPER SERIES Working Papers reflect the on-going work of academic staff members and researchers associated with the Center for Policy Studies/CEU. They are intended to facilitate communication between CPS and other researchers on timely issues. They are disseminated to stimulate commentary and policy discussion among an international community of scholars. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Justyna Kajta, PhD candidate in Doctoral Studies in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology (University of Wrocław, Poland). Her academic interests concern new nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, social movements and qualitative methodology. Adam Mrozowicki, PhD in Social Sciences (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2009), habilitation in social sciences, (specialty economic sociology, University of Wroclaw 2016), lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław, Poland. His academic interests lie in the areas of the sociology of work, comparative employment relations, critical social realism and qualitative methodology.
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