Young precarious workers in Poland and Germany: a comparative sociological study on working and living conditions, social consciousness and civic engagement

该研究项目旨在提出新的理论见解，以了解不稳定的工作和生活条件在多大程度上影响了波兰和德国青年工人的社会、阶级和政治意识、个人生活策略和集体公民参与的新兴形式。以年轻不稳定工人的情况为例，本研究试图推进不稳定的关系、历史和解释方法，其中不稳定概念的社会边界是由资本主义国家品种的制度特征、“正常就业”的文化和政治话语以及社会行动者的实践决定的。同时，该项目试图把握在后期资本主义、后福特主义社会和后社会主义转型的共同意识形态特征背景下，受不稳定就业影响的年轻人的共同经历。在这种背景下，我们试图了解两国处理不稳定就业的方法的形成过程，青年阶级经验的碎片化，他们对运作良好的经济秩序的看法，以及个人和集体应对和可能改变其处境的努力。在方法层面，我们将国家研究传统与不稳定工人的国际比较研究相结合。这包括“组织良好的经济指数”（Juliusz Gardawski），德国研究不稳定性的方法（例如Klaus Dörre）和Fritz sch<e:1>（传记方法）和Ralf Bohnsack（纪录片方法）开发的解释性研究方法。联合方法工具的发展，以了解不稳定工人的情况和策略可以被认为是本研究的另一个附加价值。本研究的实证基础包括两次CAWI全国范围内对波兰和德国1000名年轻不稳定工人的调查，120名两国不稳定员工的传记叙事访谈，以及二手数据。该项目的预期实际成果包括在JCR列出的期刊上发表至少四篇文章，编辑两本书（波兰语和德语）和一本英文期刊特刊。

This research project seeks to propose new theoretical insights into the extent to which precarious working and living conditions influence the emergent forms of social, class and political consciousness, individual life strategies and collective civic engagement of young workers in Poland and Germany. Taking as a case example the situation of young precarious workers, the research seeks to advance the relational, historical and interpretive approach to precarity in which the social boundaries of the concept are determined by institutional features of national varieties of capitalism, cultural and political discourses of 'normal employment' as well as the practices of social actors. Simultaneously, the project attempts to grasp the commonalities of experiences of young people affected by precarious employment in the context of common ideological features of late capitalist, post-Fordist societies and post-socialist transformations. In this context, we attempt to understand the process of formation of methods of dealing with unstable employment in both countries, the fragmentation of class experiences of the youth, their visions of a well-functioning economic order, as well as individual and collective attempts to cope and possibly change their situation. At the methodological level, we adapt the national research traditions to international comparative research on precarious workers. This includes the 'well organised economy index' (Juliusz Gardawski), German approaches to studying precarity (e.g. Klaus Dörre) and interpretative research methods developed by Fritz Schütze (biographical method) and Ralf Bohnsack (documentary method). The development of joint methodological tools to understand the situation and strategies of precarious workers can be considered another added value of this study. The empirical basis for the research includes two CAWI nationwide surveys of 1000 young precarious workers in Poland and Germany, 120 biographical narrative interviews with precarious employees in both countries, and secondary data. The expected tangible outcomes of the project include at least four articles in the JCR listed journals, two edited books (in Polish and German) and an English language special issue of a journal.