Getting By in Postsocialist Romania - Labor, the Body, and Working-Class Culture

Informationen zum Autor David A. Kideckel is Professor of Anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of The Solitude of Collectivism: Romanian Villagers to the Revolution and Beyond and has produced a video documentary focusing on Romania's Jiu Valley coal miners, entitled Days of the Miners: Life and Death of a Working Class Culture. Klappentext Drawing on more than three decades of fieldwork, he presents many narratives from select individuals, in their own words, providing a poignant and illuminating perspective on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Zusammenfassung A poignant portrayal of the price of postsocialist transition for industrial workers Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface 1. Getting By in Postsocialism: Labor, Bodies, Voices 2. How Workers Became "Others": Talking Alienation 3. Postsocialist Labor Pains: Fear, Distance, and Narrative in the Workplace 4. The Postsocialist Body Politic 5. Houses of Stone or of Straw? Postsocialist Worker Communities 6. Strangers in Their Own Skin: Workers and Gender in Postsocialism 7. The Embodied Enemy: Stress, Health, and Agency 8. What Is to Be Done? Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: David A. Kideckel
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2008
• EAN: 9780253219404
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21940-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe (
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology