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Who Speaks for Whom Interest Representation for Non-standard Employees
Who Speaks for Whom Interest Representation for Non-standard Employees

Author(s): Jan Czarzasty
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology, Socio-Economic Research, Sociology of Law
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: interest representation; non-standard employees; non-standard workers; trade unions

Summary/Abstract: The paper concentrates on the issues of interest representation for non-standard employees. The empirical findings from the European Union (EU) level are used as a frame of reference for analysis of the situation in Poland. Nonstandard employment is an ambiguous notion, so is, naturally, the concept of non-standard workers. In Poland nonstandard employment has been growing, mostly in a form of 'junk jobs'. Trade unions, and other institutional forms of collective interest representation, struggle to endorse problems faced by non-standard employees, with a moderate degree of success.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 1 (13)
  • Page Range: 105-120
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English