The paper presents the results of sociological qualitative research on safety management in work organization. The focus was on how to adapt the workforce to the sanitary regime during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in the lignite mining and energy sector in the Bełchatów poviat (Łódź voivodeship, Poland). The study aimed to identify the dimensions of safety and the work culture created in crisis conditions as perceived by workers. Based on the conducted analysis, the process of adapting employees to the new rules of work organization was reported, including the transition from fear and anxiety to control over threats and negative emotions. The essence of the research was to support institutional memory to consolidate the existing knowledge and use it in the future.
The publication is the result of the implementation of the project "The Doyens of Polish Sociology of Work", the authors of which are members of the Sociology of Work Section of the Polish Sociological Association. The presented publication focuses only on selected areas of the project that relate to academic sociologists of work in the aspect of women's work. By assumption, the proposed publication has two main goals, firstly it is to contribute to filling the gap in looking at the history of the subdiscipline from a feminist perspective, and secondly, it is to be a reference to Mills's sociological imagination, especially in its critical dimension (also described by Giddens).
The article shows specificity of qualitative research using interview techniques in an analysis of professional careers of women in Poland. It focuses in particular on the individual indepth interview and narrative interview, their similarities as well as their drawbacks and ways of applying them in analyses of women’s functioning in their professional lives. The article presents specific studies in which these techniques have been applied and shows when and to what extent they contributed to obtaining interesting results. Other issues raised in the article involve: deliberate resignation from anonymity while using these techniques and including gender sensitivity in a result analysis. As for the traps related to analysis of data obtained using these two types of interviews, specific focus was put on the time of conducting such interviews, which results in subjectivity of the analyzed research material.
female representatives of this sub-discipline in Poland. the authors explore two questions: (1) are female doyens of the sociology of work in Poland more interested in analysing women's work? (2) Do the respondents' biographical narratives indicate gender as a significant factor in shaping their professional and life experience? the analysis is based on the material from twelve in-depth interviews with leading researchers in the field of the sociology of work in Poland, and supplemented with the analysis of the content of their scholarly publications. Based on the feminist perspective, the authors argue that gender is a valid and a relevant factor in the case of the most prominent female representatives of this sub-discipline of sociology.
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