Duration: 01.06.2025 - 31.07.2026
Programme: Preklenovacie ERC granty, 09I01-03-V05-00014
Principal investigator: Ing. Petr Mezihorák, PhD.

In today’s workplaces, often in proximity, people work in different contractual relationships with their employer, for different employers (e.g., in the case of agency workers), and in different relationships with the state in which they work. These differences often overlap with the different gender and ethnic identities and migration experiences of workers. The aim of the project is firstly to describe how these differences in gender, ethnicity and migration experience are inscribed in the organisation of the labour process, i.e. how they interact with each other and with the division and control of labour process and labour intensity. Second, to analyse how workers with different labour-migration statuses and in different positions in the organisation of the labour process negotiate their working conditions, especially collectively across categories. The research questions are: What is the relationship between above-mentioned differences and working conditions? How does this relationship affect the possibilities for individual and collective negotiation of these working conditions? The project will focus on comparing several sectors in Slovakia, Poland and Czechia to understand the organisation of work in changing labour market conditions in countries that are new immigration destinations. The method will be semi-structured interviews and focus groups with workers.