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Introduction
I am a sociologist of work.
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February 2019 - January 2021
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- PostDoc Position
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- Member of ERC Starting Grant Project “SHARE – Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Re-presenting self-Employment” (grant agreement 715950).
June 2018 - January 2019
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Member of ERC Starting Grant Project “SHARE – Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Re-presenting self-Employment” (grant agreement 715950).
Education
April 2014 - May 2018
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Publications (18)
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 amo...
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 as...
By focusing on three groups of whistle-blowers in Slovakia speaking out against the use of bogus self-employment in their companies, this study contributes to the debate on the political dimension of whistleblowing. Specifically, it conceptualises whistleblowing as a practice that opens up broader societal, ethical, and political questions by exami...
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 work...
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...
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 ‘pe...
Drawing on an ethnography conducted in three European countries with different industrial relations models - the Netherlands, Italy, and Slovakia - this chapter examines how relations between traditional and alternative collective actors shape the frame of solo self-employed (SSE) workers’ collective representation. By using the concept of ‘strateg...
In the context of global capitalism, the transformations of work and its forms of representation urgently require a critical and comparative analysis, able to combine interpretative ‘thickness’ with comparability among different national contexts. More specifically, several scholars underlined the importance of cross-national research on precarious...
Based on an analysis of public hearings organised to select the Chair of the Office for the Protection of Whistleblowers in Slovakia, this study asks how the notions of “public interest” and “anti-social activity” have been interpreted and re-enacted, and what role the topic of corruption played in this process. The analysis reveals the tension bet...
Review of the book Taking Stock of Shock - Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions by Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein.
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 th...
This article, based on a 6-month cross-national ethnography conducted in France and Italy, aims at contributing to comparative debates on the representation of platform workers. The study takes the cases of both traditional and alternative actors that currently represent platform workers. In particular, by investigating both trade unions and grassr...
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, tha...
