Was it a strike? Notes on the Polish Women’s Strike and the Strike of Parents of Persons with Disabilities.

Kubisa, Julia; Rakowska, Katarzyna

doi:10.14746/prt.2018.4.1

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“…These zones, even if interpreted as a declaration by local authorities against certain ideas and social changes, tend to legitimise explicit articulation of homophobic and transphobic attitudes in the local populace, and reveal beliefs about who may be counted a citizen, thereby influencing the lived realities of LGBT persons residing in those communities. The neoliberal and conservative politics promoting homophobic and anti-feminist attitudes have triggered numerous social protests among many professional groups (e.g., teachers, doctors, nurses) and communities experiencing daily discrimination and social exclusion, among them people with disabilities and their caregivers, LGBT people, and women (Kubisa & Rakowska, 2018;Król & Pustułka, 2018, Struzik, 2020. At the same time, ongoing discussions about inequalities, imagined futures, and uncertainties about the present have led to intensified nationalist and 'alt-right' legislative projects, demanding the defence of the 'traditional' order, a total abortion ban, protection against 'gender and LGBT ideologies', and the strengthening of the position of a nuclear, heterosexual family as the centre of social life (Korolczuk, 2019).…”

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Disabled Women, Care Regimes, and Institutionalised Homophobia: a Case Study From Poland

2021

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Introduction The intersection of non-heterosexuality, gender, and disability became a prolific field of research among both queer, crip, and disability studies scholars, though focusing mainly on Western regions. In the paper discusses how women narrate their experiences in relation to ableist and heteronormative regimes in the context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The case study of Poland, a country characterized by institutionalization, lack of individualized disability support, and state homophobia contributes to a growing body of research on non-western sexuality and disability studies. Methods We conducted interviews with 11 non-heterosexual disabled women living in Poland. Results By tackling care regimes, our analysis explores women’s experiences in the context of discursive confusions resulting from being at the intersection of often-contradictory local narrations on gender, disability, and sexuality. We identified three intertwined processes to understand how care regimes work in Poland: (1) the separateness between queer and disabled policies and discourses, (2) the coopting/obscuring of homosexual relations between women by category of care, and (3) familiarisation of care and its consequences for non-heterosexuality. Policy Implication We suggest that social support systems must better address the needs of non-heterosexual women with disabilities which are profoundly impacted by structural, political, and cultural constraints and possibilities.

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Disabled Women, Care Regimes, and Institutionalised Homophobia: a Case Study From Poland

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“…It combines material from different research projects conducted by both authors and using different methodologies, all circulating around the interconnections between care, employment and protests. Some of the research material has already been analysed in publications on the militancy of the nurses and midwives' trade union (Kubisa, 2014(Kubisa, , 2016, an initial comparative analysis of opportunities for collective organising in care work as exemplified by nurses and nursery workers (Kubisa, 2021) and an initial discussion on the significance of industrial action in the protests of carers tending persons with disabilities (Kubisa and Rakowska, 2018). The research material on nurses, midwives and nursery workers has been expanded by further interviews and a collection of secondary data, not analysed before, along with new material on teachers and caregivers for the elderly.…”

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“…Two other centres have participated in a nationwide 'black week', a symbolic protest of social care employees against poor working conditions and low wages, and taking the form of wearing black clothes to work. This form of protest was popularised during the women's strikes of 2016, 2017 and 2018 (Kubisa and Rakowska, 2018) and is used by occupational groups whose rights to strike are limited or nonexistent.…”

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“…Although this group is not formally occupational, its main aim is to be organised as such. The parents and carers of persons with disabilities who provide care at home, as a form of private relationship and poorly subsidised by the state, held protests in 2014 and in 2018 (Kubisa and Rakowska, 2018), both involving sit-ins in the corridors of the Parliament. The protesters demanded a rise in benefits for carers who had resigned from gainful employment to take care of their disabled family members and an increase in the social security allowance to the minimum wage level.…”

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Established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles in the care sector: the case of Poland

Kubisa

Rakowska

2021

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This article analyses the struggles of care sector workers in recent years in Poland, mapping the activities of trade unions and initiatives undertaken by non-unionised workers in care services. It considers the institutional setting and barriers specific to Poland and analyses the constraints on industrial action in the sector by looking at different cases: nurses and midwives, early education teachers, nursery teachers and carers of persons with disabilities. All those groups have in recent years organised militant actions. Using an institutional approach and Social Reproduction Theory, the article discusses how the social understanding of care work intersects with the institutional setting during industrial action and the consequences for the workers of this intersection. It introduces the typology of established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles and a concept of ‘bargaining power penalty’ to show that disputes in the care sector are a new form of industrial dispute, featuring, over and above the tripartite worker-employer-state constellation, the relationship between caregivers and care recipients (and their families) as well as the special position of caregivers in society. Care weakens bargaining power, while at the same time it inspires new agendas of struggles.

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“…This has been borne out over the following years, such as in 2018, when further protests took place in response to the Episcopal Conference declaring their full support for plans to delegalize abortion for embryopathological reasons (Rytel-Andrianik 2018). The protestors not only voiced strong opposition to the ruling party, but also to the Catholic Church (Kubisa, Rakowska 2018). Despite the protestors' success, the fight for women's reproductive rights was far from over.…”

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„Kobieta powinna decydować w swoim sumieniu” – o katolickimi zaangażowaniu w protesty przeciwko zakazowi aborcji w Polsce

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Kosiorowska

Pomian

2021

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W październiku 2020 roku wyrok Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, znacząco ograniczający możliwość wykonywania legalnej aborcji w Polsce, wywołał masowe protesty w całym kraju. Do demonstracji przyłączyło się wielu pobożnych katolików, mimo że były one skierowane nie tylko przeciwko rządowi, ale i Kościołowi katolickiemu, popierającemu zmiany w prawie. Odpowiadają one bowiem jego oficjalnemu stanowisku wobec planowania rodziny. Bazując na badaniach archiwalnych i etnograficznych, w poniższej pracy przyglądamy się szeregowi kwestii związanych z katolicyzmem i aborcją: jak to możliwe, że tak wiele katoliczek zdecydowało się wciąż udział w protestach otwarcie sprzeciwiających się katolickiej nauce na temat kontroli urodzeń? Jakie były ich motywacje?

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Was it a strike? Notes on the Polish Women’s Strike and the Strike of Parents of Persons with Disabilities.

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Disabled Women, Care Regimes, and Institutionalised Homophobia: a Case Study From Poland

Disabled Women, Care Regimes, and Institutionalised Homophobia: a Case Study From Poland

Established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles in the care sector: the case of Poland

„Kobieta powinna decydować w swoim sumieniu” – o katolickimi zaangażowaniu w protesty przeciwko zakazowi aborcji w Polsce

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