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Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I research regulation of work and labour markets from a critical, socio-legal perspective that is conceptually and methodologically informed by feminist political economy and critical policy studies. Broadly, I am interested in law\u2019s constitutive role in the re\/production of social relations, and its distributional effects. My work also attends to the interaction of legal discourses and governance regimes operating at multiple scales, such as in the context of regional integration, and under conditions of political-economic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written on the gendered (and other relational) dimensions of work and labour markets and the regulatory challenges and possibilities inherent in their historical constitution and ongoing transformations. Among others, I have published on working time, work family reconciliation, gender equality and inclusion policies, as well as neoliberalism, post-socialist transition, and crisis governance and labour market reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A parallel strand of my research revolves around the interface of work and environmental regulation, with focus on legal contestations and conflicts produced by jurisdictional boundaries and legal dis\/articulations as well as the possibilities inherent in more ecologically-attuned forms of governance and social organization of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2018, I have been involved in a EU-funded comparative project Agreenment<\/a><\/u>, which investigates the role of unions and labour movements in bargaining on issues of environmental sustainability within and beyond the workplace. The project covers 6 EU countries: France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. I am responsible for the UK study together with Marie Pillon (research assistant) (Grant Agreement VP\/2017\/004\/0037).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching and Supervision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I teach courses in Labour Law, Employment Law, and Employment Dispute Resolution in a manner that is informed by the conceptual and methodological lenses I adopt in my research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am interested in supervising legal and socio-legal research on regulation of work and labour markets; gender, law and work; labour\/environmental sustainability nexus; feminist theories of law; feminist political economy and ecology of work; critical policy studies; post-socialist transitions; and multi-level governance regimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to joining Carleton\u2019s Department of Law and Legal Studies, I was Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick School of Law (UK) and Director of Warwick\u2019s Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) Network (2017-2019). I also held Research Fellowships at Warwick Law School (2013-2016) and Lund University Faculty of Law in Sweden (2015), and I was selected as the 2019-20 France-ILO Research Chair at Nantes Institute of Advanced Study (declined). I won the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Best Thesis prize for my doctoral work (2013) and was a member of the British Academy Raising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA)-funded project entitled Future Directions in EU Labour Law<\/a><\/u> (2015). I have a PhD in Law and Society from University of Victoria Faculty of Law (2012), an LL.B. from the University of Windsor, and a BA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/u>
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\n<\/u>Zbyszewska, A. 2016. Gendering European Working Time Regimes: The Working Time Directive and the Case of Poland <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Reviewed: Plomien, A. (2018) \u201cBook review: Ania Zbyszewska: Gendering European working time regimes.\u201d<\/em> Feminist Legal Studies<\/em>, 26(2): 229-232].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackham, A., Kullmann, M. and Zbyszewska, A. (eds.) 2019. Theorizing Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards an Inclusive Labour Law<\/em>. Hart\/Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/u>Zbyszewska, A. 2018. \u201cRegulating Work with People and \u2018Nature\u2019 in Mind: Feminist Reflections\u201d. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal<\/em> 40(1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benedi-Lahuerta, S., Zbyszewska, A., 2018. \u201cEU Equality Law after a Decade of Austerity: On the Social Pillar and its Transformative Potential.\u201d International Journal of Discrimination and the Law<\/em> 18(2-3), 162-192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kresal, B., Zbyszewska, A., 2017. \u201cThrough Work-Life-Family Reconciliation to Gender Equality? Slovenia and the United Kingdom\u2019s Legal Frameworks Compared.\u201d Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations<\/em> (on Work Life Balance) vol 98, 155-182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2016. \u201cActive Aging through Employment: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Polish Policy.\u201d International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations<\/em> 32(4): 449-472.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014-. 2016. \u201cReshaping the European Working-time Regime: Towards a Sustainable Model.\u201d European Labour Law Journal<\/em> 7(3): 331-347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014-. 2013. \u201cThe European Working Time Directive: Keeping the Long Hours with Gendered Consequences.\u201d Women\u2019s Studies Int. Forum<\/em>, 39(1): 30-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014-. 2012. \u201cRegulating Working Time in the Times of Crisis: Flexibility, Gender and the Case of Long Hours in Poland.\u201d International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations <\/em>28(4): 421-441.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Editorials (Journals)<\/u>
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\n<\/u>Zbyszewska, A. 2018. \u201cLabour Law for a Warming World? Exploring the Intersections of Work Regulation and Environmental Sustainability \u2013 Guest Editorial\u201d in Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal<\/em> 40(1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Kullmann M., Blackham, A. 2018. \u201cScrutinizing the Standardized Worker: Critical and International Perspectives \u2013 Guest Editorial\u201d in International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations<\/em> 34(4): 345-350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Benedi Lahuerta, S. 2018. \u201cTaking Stock of Twenty Years of EU Equality Law and Policymaking and Looking Ahead\u2013 Guest Editorial\u201d in International Journal of Discrimination and the Law<\/em> 18(2-3): 55-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters in Edited Collections<\/u>
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\n<\/u>Kullmann, M., Zbyszewska, A., Blackham, A. 2019. \u201cIntroduction\u201d in Theorizing Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards an Inclusive Labour Law<\/em>. Hart\/Bloomsbury (August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Routh, S. 2019. \u201c\u2018Challenging Labour Law\u2019s Productivist Focus: Insights from Research on Informal and Unpaid Work\u2019 in Theorizing Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards Inclusive Labour Law<\/em>, A. Blackham, M. Kullmann, A. Zbyszewska (eds.), Hart\/Bloomsbury (August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2017. \u201cGendering Poland\u2019s Crisis Response: A Europeanization Perspective\u201d in Gender, Politics and the Crisis in Europe<\/em>, ed. Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo, Palgrave, Gender and Politics Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014-. 2017. \u201cWomen in Research and Academic Labour Markets: Revisiting the Issue Ten Years On.\u201d in Festskrift for Ann-Numhauser Henning<\/em>. Juristforlaget, Lund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numhauser-Henning, A., Jul\u00e9n Votinius, J., Zbyszewska, A. 2017. \u201cEqual Treatment and Age-discrimination \u2013 Inside and Outside Working Life\u201d in Elder Law: Evolving European Perspectives<\/em>, Edward Elgar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackham, A., Kullmann, M., Petterson, H., Zbyszewska, A., 2017 \u201cThe Rationales of Government Action on Aging and the Extension of Working Lives\u201d in Elder Law: Evolving European Perspectives<\/em>, Edward Elgar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fudge, J., Zbyszewska, A., 2015. \u201cAn Intersectional Approach to Age Discrimination in EU Law: Bridging Dignity and Distribution.\u201d In Age Discrimination and Labour Law<\/em>, A. Numhauser-Henning & M. Ronnmar, eds., 141-163. Kluwer Law International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2014. \u201cVisions of the Future: Imagining and Anticipating Tomorrow\u2019s Working Hours from the North American Perspective.\u201d In Factor of Time in the New Economy. Where are we Heading?<\/em>\u201d H. Strzeminska, ed., 58-75. Institute of Work and Social Matters: Warsaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3537,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ania","cu_people_last_name":"Zbyszewska","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[58],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3536","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-law"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ania.zbyszewska@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-520-2600","cu_people_phone_ext":"2621","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}