Markieta Domecka

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• PhD
• Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Work and Organisation at University of Roehampton

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of precarious work under labour market reforms and societal an...

This study applies Garfinkel's (1967) concept of 'breaching experiment' to explore the impact of COVID-19-induced disruptions on the 'emotion manage-ment' practices of residential care workers in the United Kingdom and Germany. It examines the influence of professional feeling rules on workers, emphasizing the prescribed importance of displaying af...

This article challenges positive views of the assumed relationships between skills, productivity and rewards in self-employed digital freelancing. It suggests that the upfront investments made by freelancers to build up positive platform ratings are not necessarily recouped in the form of increased autonomy, guaranteed work or more lucrative 'gigs'...

This paper highlights how care workers draw upon their personal understanding and experiences to determine the appropriate emotions to express while providing care for residents amid the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This paper examines the experiences of self-employed online freelancers working on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on interviews with freelancers and platform managers and experts in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Their experiences during COVID-19 reveal issues of asymmetric power vis-à-vis pl...

This article challenges positive views of the assumed relationships between skills, productivity and rewards in self-employed digital freelancing. It suggests that the upfront investments made by freelancers to build up positive platform ratings are not necessarily recouped in the form of increased autonomy, guaranteed work or more lucrative ‘gigs’...

Digital platforms provide many workers with vital income and offer the promise of flexible work, and yet also contribute to experiences of precariousness and exploitation, particularly with regard to pressures to undertake unpaid work. This article explores why unpaid labour is necessary and what drives its extent and form among diverse types of di...

This article develops understanding of gendered precarity in project work by considering how transfer of risk from employer to worker is shaped by the contextual pressures of state policy and organization of the industrial field. The focus is the organization of project work as a condition underpinning the shifting of this risk in a mature field of...

Resumen Se explora cómo la pandemia de COVID‐19 ha afectado a las experiencias laborales y vitales de las y los trabajadores de plataformas de trabajo localizado y en línea en Polonia y cómo estos han respondido. Las importantes fluctuaciones de la demanda han exacerbado las distorsiones de una relación laboral asimétrica no regulada fuera de la re...

Résumé Les auteurs analysent les répercussions de la pandémie de COVID‐19 sur l'activité et le vécu des travailleurs de plateforme en Pologne et la réaction de cette main‐d'œuvre dans ces circonstances particulières. Ils observent que les fortes fluctuations de la demande ont exacerbé les distorsions propres à une relation de travail asymétrique, n...

The growth of the platform economy in Belgium, although less rapid than in its neighbouring countries, has triggered heated debates around workers’ legal classification and their protection. The structures for collective employment regulations and strong trade unions under the Ghent system provide some protections for workers, but in the specific c...

The phenomenon of the platform economy is increasing in size and importance, with its business model infiltrating various branches of the economy. The Covid-19 crisis has been an exacerbating factor in this. While employers and some policymakers insist that platforms create jobs and new opportunities for workers, especially those who are hard t...

This article explores how the COVID‐19 pandemic has affected the work and life experiences of platform workers' and how workers have responded to the outbreak in Poland. Platform workers have been exposed to substantial fluctuations of demand during the pandemic, magnifying the distortions existing in an unregulated asymmetrical employment relation...

In 2020 Covid-19 was spreading quickly in nursing homes, leading to numerous challenges for care workers. We tell the story of Marieke, a devoted female care assistant working in a Belgian nursing home that is customer-centred in their organisational model. Her narrative provides poignant insights into the ‘work and life’ struggles and conflicts of...

This working paper identifies some key areas of policy intervention for advancing socially sustainable and fair solutions for freelancers working in the creative industries, who are among those have suffered the most from the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the authors focus on those who work entirely on their own account...

This working paper identifies some key areas of policy intervention for advancing socially sustainable and fair solutions for freelancers working in the creative industries, who are among those have suffered the most from the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the authors focus on those who work entirely on their own account...

This chapter critically explores the autobiographical narrative method developed by the German sociologist Fritz Schütze.1 We shall argue that the methodology can help to uncover domains of psycho-social experience that may be hard to reveal using other interviewing techniques. The method includes a close analysis of interview transcriptions, disti...

This chapter illustrates the pathways towards adulthood for young people living in a metropolitan area of Southern Italy. It is a context of very high unemployment, especially in case of young people with irregular work and insufficient institutional support. This is also a context that has been particularly affected by the recent economic crisis....

In the paper, the migration processes and gender work are analysed from the perspective of biographies of migrating women. By a comparative detailed reconstruction of two autobiographical narratives, the purpose of this article is to show the ways gender work is interwoven in migration processes and how gender relations are reflected upon, challeng...

This policy brief examines the phenomenon of home-based entrepreneurship. It provides information on the types of businesses that entrepreneurs are most likely to operate out of the home, their reasons for this choice, and barriers to the development.

In this article, we analyse the processes of migration from the perspective of agency-structure debate. In particular, we focus on the reflexive and emotional aspects of geographical movement and the complex relations between the settlement context, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and migrating people, with their biographies, gender positioning, resourc...

In the chapter the relations between agency, reflexivity and structure are analysed in order to explain why and how in the particularly difficult Italian context some young people are capable of developing successful coping strategies and some are not. Firstly, we reconstruct the structural context, shaping the opportunities (or their lack) availab...

The neoliberal order, introduced in Poland in the course of post-socialist transformation, constituted a context of action, as well as a repertoire of rules and practices people becoming corporate managers had to learn to cope with. As some took it for granted as 'the only' way of joining the economies of the idealised 'West', and through their dai...

In political discourse, as much as in social studies, the term integration is commonly viewed in the context of migration. On the basis of ‘objective’ indicators and statistical analysis, the level of integration is measured and assessed as ‘low’ or ‘high’, ‘sufficient’ or ‘insufficient’. This is the perspective of the receiving countries (not migr...

In the paper we demonstrate that the analysis of the integration processes requires taking into account not only ‘objective’ indicators, such as employment, living conditions, legal status and language skills, but also the biographical experiences of migrants - before, during and after the transition - as well as their own understanding of the noti...

Combining biographical analysis with the theoretical background of critical realism, this chapter presents the phenomenon of European mobility as the outcome of objectively formed opportunity structures and subjectively performed processes of internal conversation and biographical work. Viewing transnational mobility as a strategy actively promoted...

Śledząc rozwój teorii w naukach społecznych widzimy dominację podejść jednostronnych, skupiających się na poziomie strukturalnym i ignorujących znaczenie podmiotowości lub przeciwnie, eksponujących rolę podmiotowego sprawstwa przy jednoczesnym pomijaniu wpływów strukturalnych. O ile obecnie możemy zaobserwować rosnące zrozumienie dla potrzeby równo...

This chapter critically explores the autobiographical narrative method developed by the German sociologist Fritz Schütze. We shall argue that the methodology can help to uncover domains of psycho-social experience that may be hard to reveal using other interviewing techniques. The method includes a close analysis of interview transcriptions, distin...

The chapters that make up this edited book all arise from a single European Commission Framework 7 collaborative research project, EUROIDENTITIES: ‘The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity’, that ran from early 2008 through 2011. The seven partner teams that made up the project wer...

This chapter focuses on the life history of 39-year-old Matt Wellwood, originally from New Zealand and now living for a number of years in London and commuting on a regular basis to Germany, where his wife and daughter live. Matt’s history is interesting as it shows the perspective of a man with European roots (his father was born in England), born...

Conducting autobiographical narrative interviews is a chance to approach people in their world of everyday life. Building our understanding of people’s biographies we take into account the categories, elaborations and personal theories they construct around their own lives. Hence, autobiography is not only a methodological model for hermeneutic und...

Dutch Elly,1 who migrated to the UK in the 1990s, was interviewed early on in the Euroidentities project. As a transnational worker who had moved from one EU member state to another, we expected her to have experienced Europe as an arena of relatively easy internal mobility. Indeed in her story she reflected on the ease with which she and her husba...

Trying to reconstruct and understand different perspectives on Europe and European identities, initially we made a distinction between the ‘internal’ and the ‘external’. In the course of the research process, however, this distinction proved to bring more ambiguities than it was supposed to resolve. Analysing the autobiographical narrative intervie...

An important issues in the development of European cities is the design and renovation of the urban public areas. Typically, broad variety of approaches (sociological, ecological, environmental, physical, etc.) is needed. Earlier studies show the necessity of the transversal multidisciplinary approach in this issue. In order to study the acoustical...

Artykuł prezentuje wyniki badań nad wzorami karier zawodowych podejmowanych przez robotników i ludzi biznesu w okresie głębokiej zmiany społecznej w Polsce po 1989 roku. Pojęcia kariery, zasobów i pracy biograficznej umożliwiły zbadanie interakcji „obiektywnych” i „subiektywnych” aspektów życia zawodowego. Zastosowanie metodologii teorii ugruntowan...