Karol Muszyński, Ph.D.

Scientific activity

2023-now – assistant professor at the Department of Economic Sociology and Public Issues, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
2023-now – research associate, Centre For Sociological Research, KU Leuven
2020-2023 – post-doctoral researcher and substitute lecturer, Centre For Sociological Research, KU Leuven
2019 – Grigor Gradev Scholarship at the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels
2018-2020 – assistant professor, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
2018 – PhD, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
2015, 2016 – Visiting scholar at the Onati International Institute for Sociology of Law
2013 – master, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

Scientific interests

sociology of labour, economic sociology, labour law, non-standard forms of employment, platform economy, new technology and labour, European social dialogue

Selected publications

• Muszyński, K. (2023). Anti-discrimination Legislation and Protection of Working Conditions of the Self-employed. European Labour Law Journal, 20319525231221093, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10242589231177353
• Muszyński, K., Pulignano, V., Domecka, M., Potter, J., Halabisky, D. (2023) Entrepreneurial opportunities and working conditions of self-employed online freelancers in the platform economy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Papers No. 45, https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/entrepreneurial-opportunities-and-working-conditions-of-self-employed-online-freelancers-in-the-platform-economy_ebc310de-en
• Mangan, D., Muszyński, K., Pulignano, V. (2023) The platform discount: Addressing unpaid work as a structural feature of labour platforms. European Labour Law Journal 14(4): 541–569, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20319525231210550
• Winczorek, J., & Muszyński, K. (2023). Small and Medium Enterprises, Law and Business: Uncertainty and Justice. Routledge.
• Pulignano, V., Mara, C., Franke, L. M., & Muszyński, K. (2023). Informality of employment in digital domestic care platforms: a study on the individualization of risk and unpaid labour in mature market contexts. Transfer-European Review of Labour and Research, 29(3), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10242589231177353
• Muszyński, K., Skuczyński, P. (2023). Constitutional Drift – Exploring the Deeper Roots of Polish Constitutional Crisis, iCourts Working Paper Series, no. 328
• Muszyński, K., Pulignano, V., Mara, Claudia (2022) Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: a study in Poland and Italy, European Journal of Industrial Relations 28(3): 295-316. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596801211070802
• Winczorek, J., Muszyński, K. (2022) The access to justice gap and the rule of law crisis in Poland. Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie 42(1): 5-42, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zfrs-2022-0002/html
• Muszyński, K., Pulignano, V., Domecka, M., & Mrozowicki, A. (2022). Coping with precarity during COVID‐19: A study of platform work in Poland. International Labour Review 161(3): 463-485, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ilr.12224
• Pulignano, V., Piasna, A., Domecka, M., Muszyński, K., Vermeerbergen, L. (2021) Does it pay to work? Unpaid labour in the platform economy. ETUI Policy Brief. Brussels, https://www.etui.org/publications/does-it-pay-work
• Pulignano, V., Domecka, M., Muszyński, K., Vermeerbergen, L., & Riemann, M. L. (2021). Creative Labour in the Era of Covid-19: The Case of Freelancers. ETUI Working Paper. Brussels, https://www.etui.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Creative%20labour%20in%20the%20era%20of%20Covid-19%20the%20case%20of%20freelancers-2021-web.pdf
• Muszyński, K., Skuczyński, P. (2020) Rozwój i kryzys konstytucji społecznej. Przypadek samorządów zawodowych. Warszawa: CH Beck, https://books.google.pl/books?id=dbsmEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pl&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Muszyński, K. (2020). Reform and oversight mechanisms are not enough. Access to justice for workers and employment standards in Central Eastern European countries. ETUI Working Papers. Brussels., https://www.etui.org/publications/reform-and-oversight-mechanisms-are-not-enough
• Muszyński, K. (2020). Liberalizaton Without Major Reforms: The Destandarization of Employment Relations in Central Eastern European Countries. In: Wratny J., Ludera-Ruszel A. (eds.) New Forms of Employment. Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung – transdisziplinäre Studien. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
• Muszyński, K., Skuczyński, P. (2020) Changing Legal and Social Role of Professional Self-Governments During Systemic Transformation in Poland, Krytyka Prawa 12(1): 149-173., https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3756572
• Muszyński, K. (2019). Normalisation of “junk contracts”. Public policies towards civil law employment in Poland, Problemy Polityki Społecznej 46(3): 11-28, http://www.problemypolitykispolecznej.pl/Normalisation-of-junk-contracts-nPublic-policies-towards-civil-law-employment-in,122539,0,2.html
• Muszyński, K. (2019) Polityka regulacji zatrudnienia w Polsce. Kryzys ekonomiczny a destandaryzacja stosunków pracy, Warszawa: Scholar, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356867078_Polityka_regulacji_zatrudnienia_w_Polsce_Kryzys_ekonomiczny_a_destandaryzacja_stosunkow_pracy
• Winczorek, J., Muszyński, K. (2019). Access to justice in small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland. An empirical report, Warszawa: Wydział Prawa i Administracji, https://depot.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/123456789/22190/Winczorek%20%26%20Muszyn%CC%81ski.%202019.%20Access%20to%20justice%20in%20SMEs%20in%20Poland.%20Empirical%20report%20FINAL_compressed.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• Muszyński, K. (2019). Formalne regulacje zatrudnienia a perspektywa różnorodności kapitalizmu, Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 81 (3): 71-85, https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rpeis/article/view/19912
• Muszyński, K. (2019). The emergence of unintended fit and the theory of gradual institutional change: a case study of Polish employment regulations and post-crisis public policies, Zarządzanie Publiczne/Public Governance 47: 33-47; http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-5870131f-769c-461f-8519-02119eaf5ab1
• Muszyński, K. (2018). Labour law violations as innovations in Central Eastern European countries, Przegląd Socjologiczny 67(3): 9-34., https://www.proquest.com/openview/432410e30770e37f13004896aa0baabd/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1566340
• Muszyński, K. (2016). Factors behind the growth of civil law contracts as employment contracts in Poland – a study of labour law violations, Prakseologia 158: 323-359, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326156119_Factors_behind_the_growth_of_civil_law_contracts_as_employment_contracts_in_Poland_-_A_study_of_labour_law_violations

Projects

Completed projects

2020-2023 – post-doc in “Researching Precariousness across the Paid/Unpaid Work Continuum” (ERC Advanced Grant, nr 833577, principal investigator – prof. Valeria Pulignano)

2017-2020 – co-investigator “Barriers of access to law in small and medium enterprises in Poland” (OPUS grant from the Polish National Science Centre; principal investigator – Jan Winczorek)

2016-2020 – co-investigator “Legal policy against the professional self-governments. Towards a model of reflexive law making” (OPUS grant from the Polish National Science Centre; principal investigator – Paweł Skuczyński)

2016-2020 – principal investigator in “Labour law policy after the economic crisis in Poland. Labour market segmentation and labour law violations” (PRELUDIUM grant from the Polish National Science Centre)

Other

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