dr Katarzyna Rakowska

Scientific activity

2007 – Master’s degree, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw

2024 – PhD, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Scientific interests

Trade unions, Collective disputes, Labour mobilizations. Labour process, Labour migration

Selected publications

2019: Julia Kubisa, Katarzyna Rakowska, Was it a strike? Notes on the Polish Women’s Strike and the Strike of Parents of Persons with Disabilities Praktyka Teoretyczna, 30 (4), p. 15-50, DOI: 10.14746/prt.2018.4.1

2021: Julia Kubisa, Katarzyna Rakowska, Established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles in the care sector: The case of Poland, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 27 (3), p. 353-366, DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589211028097

2026: Francesco Pasetti, Eleonora Celoria, Gianluca Iazzolino, Katarzyna Rakowska, Navigating precarity between law and profit: Migrant riders in Italy, Poland, and Spain, Social Inclusion, Vol 14 (2026), DOI https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10959

2025: Poland–Being simultaneously defensive and offensive. The resistance to Amazon by Workers’ Initiative, When trade unions learn to innovate. Case study evidence from across Europe, ETUI, The European Trade Union Institute, p. 109-128

2016: Piotr Płucienniczak, Katarzyna Rakowska, Daniel Płatek, Dariusz Szklarczyk, Beyond strikes? Regime and repertoire of workers’ protests in Poland 2004–2016, Polish Sociological Review, 2(218)’22, p. 169-186, DOI:10.26412/psr218.02

2025: Conflict and demobilisation: lessons on legitimacy and associational power from Poland’s 2019 teachers’ strike, Globalisation, Societies and Education, 23 (1), p. 259-279, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2305214

Projects

Completed projects

Trade Unions and the Restriction of the Right to Strike (Project No. 2018/31/N/HS5/02781), funded by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) under the PRELUDIUM programme (2019-2023).