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-----Original Message-----
From: Critical Labour Studies [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simms, Melanie (Prof.)
Sent: 30 March 2015 09:21
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Subject: Re: BNIM - Any use re labour, unions, feminist and other social movements, revolution?

Dear all

Jane Holgate, Ed Heery and I also used a form of BNI with union organisers in our book. The overall study was mixed-methods, but the interviews with organisers were BNI:

Simms, M., J. Holgate and E. Heery. (2013) Union Voices – Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing. Cornell University Press.

Mel

> On 29 Mar 2015, at 08:29, Adam Mrozowicki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> indeed, I made use of biographical methods to study trade union
> activism in Eastern Europe. Besides work mentioned by Tom, you might
> be interested in the articles, such as
>
> Mrozowicki, Adam, Trawińska, Marta (2013) Women's union activism and
> trade union revitalisation: the Polish experiences, Economic and
> Industrial Democracy, 34(2): 269-289, DOI:
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X12442578
>
> Mrozowicki, A., Pulignano, V., Van Hootegem, G. (2010) Worker agency
> and trade union renewal: the case of Poland. Work, Employment and
> Society. 24 (2): 240-257.
>
> Mrozowicki, A. (2010) The agency of the weak: ethos, reflexivity and
> life strategies of Polish workers after the end of state socialism. W
> Archer, M. (ed.) Conversations about Reflexivity. Routledge, pp.
> 167-186.
>
>
> Thanks, best wishes, Adam
>
>
> 2015-03-28 15:14 GMT+01:00 Tom Wengraf <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Re: uses of biographic-narrative interpretive method for looking at
>> unions and movement history and practice....
>>
>> One researcher writes:
>>
>> "I've had a couple of very near misses with funding applications for
>> research in which I intended to use BNIM since my course with you.
>>
>> I am at the moment in the process of working up a project - to
>> involve BNIM
>> - that will look at the consequences of industrial restructuring 10
>> years on from the closure of a steel plant. I will keep you posted".
>>
>>
>>
>> I've also remembered the work of Adam Mrozowicki on Polish unionism:
>>
>> Adam Mrozowicki and Geert van Hootegem. 2008. 'Unionism and workers'
>> strategies in capitalist transformation: the Polish case reconsidered'.
>> European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol.14(2), pp. 197-216
>>
>> Adam Mrozowicki. 2008. 'Coping with social change: ethos, reflexivity
>> and life strategies of Polish workers after the end of state
>> socialism'. Paper prepared for the 38th World Congress of the
>> International Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary, June 26-30,
>> 2008
>>
>> Adam Mrozowicki, Valerie Pulignano, & Geert van Hootegem . 2009.
>> 'Reinvention of Activism: a Chance for Union Renewal in New Market
>> Economies?- The Case of Poland', in Gregor Gall (ed.) Union
>> Organising - Current Practice, Future Prospects. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
>>
>> Adam Mrozowicki. 2009. Coping with social change. Life strategies of
>> workers in Poland after the end of state socialism. PhD thesis,
>> University of Leuven, Belgium, February 2009. Summarised at
>> http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/doctoraatsverdediging/cm/3H05/3H050291.htm
>>
>> Adam Mrozowicki. 2011. Coping with change: Life strategies of workers
>> in Poland in Poland's new capitalism. Leuwen: Leuven University
>> Press
>>
>> Hopefully more will come to light....
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Adam Mrozowicki
> Institute of Sociology
> University of Wroclaw
> Phone: (+48) 602817721
> Skype: adam_mrozowicki
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