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Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (28.02.2022)
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Last update: Mgr. Ĺubica Kobová, M.A., Ph.D. (19.02.2024)
Course schedule Week 1 (February 19, 2024) Introduction
Week 2 (February 26, 2024) From standard employment relation to precarious work Mrozowicki, A., & Trappmann, V. Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland. Work, employment and society, 0(0), 0950017020936898. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020936898
Week 3 (March 4, 2024) Factory work Maciejewska, M. (2012). Exhausted bodies and precious products: women's work in a Special Economic Zone for the electronics industry in Poland. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 6(2), 94-112. Week 4 (March 11, 2024) Sexual harassment at work (Ed.) (2018). Where freedom starts : sex, power, violence, #MeToo : a Verso report. London & New York: Verso. Chapters: 7: The Politics of Sexual Harassment (Linda Gordon, s. 50 – 60), 9: Socializing Security, Unionizing Work : #MeToo as our moment to explore possibilities (Tithi Bhattacharya, s. 68 – 75).
Week 5 (March 18, 2024) Productivity and time-management in factory work Gregg, M. (2018). Counterproductive : time management in the knowledge economy. Duke University Press. Chapter 2: Executive athleticism (pp. 53 – 77).
Week 6 (March 25, 2024) Domestic labor Farris, S. R. (2012). Femonationalism and the "regular" army of labor called migrant women. History of the Present, 2(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.2.2.0184
March 25, 2024 in class Reaction paper topics assigned
Week 7 (April 1, 2024) No class. Easter Monday.
April 7, 2024 23:59 Reaction paper deadline
Week 8 (April 8, 2024) Work, family and private life articulation Warren, T. (2015). Work–life balance/imbalance: the dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class. The British Journal of Sociology, 66(4), 691-717. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468- 4446.12160
April 14, 2024 23:59 Reaction paper – deadline for peer feedback
Week 9 (April 15, 2024) Shorter working hours Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press. Chapter 4: „Hours for what we will“ (pp. 151 – 174).
Week 10 (April 22, 2024) Emotional and affective labor Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The managed heart : commercialization of human feeling. University of California Press. Chapter 6: Feeling management (pp. 89 – 136).
Week 11 (April 29, 2024) Burnout and mental health care Murray, N. (2019). No crying in the breakroom. In D. Frayne (Ed.), The work cure : critical essays on work and wellness (pp. 45 - 60). PCCS Books. Berrie, D., & McDonagh, E. (2019). Reproducing anxiety : social reproduction and communities of care. In D. Frayne (Ed.), The work cure : critical essays on work and wellness (pp. 75 - 92). PCCS Books.
Week 12 (May 6, 2024) Post-fordism, creativity and gender McRobbie, A. (2016). Be creative. Polity Press. Chapter 4: The gender of post-fordism: "passionate work", "risk class" and "a life of one´s own", pp. 87 - 114.
Week 13 (May 13, 2024) The refusal of work Weeks, K. (2017). Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 45(3), 37-58. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/674327
May 13, 2024 23:59 Final research paper – abstract submission deadline
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