Patchy world. Privatisation as the driving force behind the evolution of labour relations in Poland

Abstract

_{Over the past three decades, Poland’s economy has experienced a deep structural change in terms of ownership: from almost entirely state-owned to predominantly private, and from relatively consolidated to largely fragmented. The shift in the dominant form of ownership has been arguably the key factor behind the profound reconfiguration of work and employment relations, which has become fragmented and, to a large degree, subject to the voluntarist behaviour of employers. The article follows the changes in the social perceptions of the labour market in the context of ownership structure and the evolution of the economic mentality of Poles, using empirical data collected in the course of longitudinal research conducted at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH).}