WAS IT A STRIKE? NOTES ON THE POLISH WOMEN’S STRIKE AND THE STRIKE OF PARENTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
WAS IT A STRIKE? NOTES ON THE POLISH WOMEN’S STRIKE AND THE STRIKE OF PARENTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Author(s): KATARZYNA RAKOWSKA, Julia KubisaSubject(s): Gender Studies, Labor relations, Politics and society, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Politics, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: strike; protest; Women’s Strike; Black Protest; Parents of Disabled Persons; reproductive labour; care work;
Summary/Abstract: Two significant social protests that took place in Poland in recent years – a massive mobilisation of women against a ban on abortion and an occupation of the Sejm building by carers of persons with disabilities – were called strikes. In this article, we analyse the Polish Women's Strike events of 2016, 2017 and 2018 and the strike of parents of persons with disabilities of 2018 from the perspective of a strike as a form of protest. What does it mean that both protests have been called strikes and what are the implications of incorporating the terminology of labour disputes by both protests? Strikes in Poland are a form of collective, institutionalized industrial action of workers in wage employment, organized only by a trade union registered in a certain workplace and its subject can be exclusively of workplace matters and not on matters that are political and beyond an employer’s influence.
Journal: Praktyka teoretyczna
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 15-50
- Page Count: 36
- Language: English