Global Workers and Entangled Crises

Mihai Varga is a sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Institute for East-European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Mateusz Karolak is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław. Adam Mrozowicki is Head of the Department of the Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw.

• 1. Workers, Biographies and the Polycrisis: Introduction (Mihai Varga, Mateusz Karolak, Adam Mrozowicki)2. Worker Biographies and Recurrent Crises in the EU Periphery (Mihai Varga and Diana Percă)3. Essential Workers and Biographical Resources in Germany (Christian Fröhlich)4. Debts, Work, and Autonomy of Women Returnees to Colombia (Sofia Margarita Vinasco-Molina and Yenny Carolina Ramírez Suárez)5. Waiting and Hope among Precarious Migrant Workers in Istanbul (Soner Barthoma and Susan Beth Rottmann)6. Care between Nationhood and Capitalism: Precarious Female Teachers in Croatia’s Minoritised Education (Emina Bužinkić and Nina Čolović)7. Navigating the Storm: Coping Strategies of Migrant and Non-Migrant Logistics Workers in Poland (Mateusz Karolak, Könül Jafarova, and Adam Mrozowicki)8. Trade Union Activism as a Biographical Resource: Unionised Health Care Workers Facing COVID-19 in Upstate New York (Adam Mrozowicki and Jacek Burski) 9. Vale do Ribeira, Serra da Bocaina, and the Amazon: Community Resilience in Brazil (Marina Fontolan, Aline Hasegawa, Liliana Acero, Carla Águas, José Maria Trajano, and Leda Gitahy)10. Global Workers and Entangled Crises: Conclusions (Mateusz Karolak, Adam Mrozowicki, Mihai Varga)