Identity and mining heritage in Romania’s Jiu Valley coal region

Kideckel, David A.

doi:10.4324/9781315281179-7

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“…Consecutive governments orchestrated the downgrading and delegitimation of labour and its representatives, eroding coal miners’ privileged status within the overall labour class structure. Miners’ ability to engage in strike action was limited, as new legislation was passed to set out rules for strikes and introduce alternative mechanisms for mediating labour disagreements (Kideckel, 2001). Trade union membership collapsed, driven in large part by the programme of voluntary dismissal.…”

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Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania

Jipa-Muşat

Prevezer

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Drawing on global production network research and conceptual explanations of the changing spatial divisions of labour, this article investigates the transformative effects of the dynamic interplay between strategic coupling and multiscalar changes across labour regimes in Central and Eastern European post-socialist sectoral trajectories. It interrogates critically whether sectors across peripheral regions have been able to slot themselves into lead firms’ transnational production systems, resulting in processes of value creation, value capture or value destruction. The empirical analysis reveals that the capacity of domestic resources to purposively match and align themselves to global lead firms and their strategic objectives is influenced by local historical legacies, spatiality, elite agency and labour agency, which combined to shape distinct meso-level transformations. The methodology is based on analysing the post-socialist transformation of three sectors in Romania, which have different historical legacies, institutional configurations, and spatial and temporal vectors of development, allowing us to trace interactions between different modes of strategic coupling or decoupling and labour regime reconfiguration. The central thrust of the article highlights how different modes of strategic coupling into global production networks, or decoupling from global production networks, are causally linked to the reconfiguration of labour regimes, leading to long-term regional socio-economic transformations.

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Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania

Jipa-Muşat

Prevezer

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…The local economy was initially dominated by pastoral activities, but it later shifted to coal mining (Burlacu et al 2019). Economic and social life were organized around coal production (Ţoc and Alexandrescu, 2022), coal mining becoming the region's identity (Kideckel, 2018). As mining operations began, followed by urbanization and industrialization during the communist period, the population of Jiu Valley experienced substantial growth (Baron, 1998).…”

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“…While their image as miners was exalted in the communist period (Rus, 2007;Cesereanu, 2016), it slowly started to decline after the fall of the regime (Rus, 2007). They became discredited, defamed or even considered worthy of pity by others, such a perception being influenced by the militantism and questionable acts of labor unions, and by the negative and exaggerated manner in which the press painted them (Kideckel, 2010;Kideckel, 2018;Rus, 2007;Cesereanu, 2016). The questionable actions of the labor unions we're most visible in the mineriads, but they can be seen even in their relationship with the management of the mining company (Ciocodeică and Prodanciuc, 2010).…”

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An Exploratory Paper on Civil Society in Jiu Valley. The Case of Coalition ”valea Jiului Implicată”

BESERMAN

2023

JCPP

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Up to this date very few empirical studies that address the civil society sector in Jiu Valley have been conducted. If they touch upon this topic, they discuss only the associational life of the miners. However, this does constitute their main objective. Thus, civil society actors beyond the miners' unions are neglected. Recognizing the scarcity of research on this topic, the paper seeks to address this gap, by taking the case of the coalition of Valea Jiului Implicată/Jiu Valley Involved. In order to find out more about this coalition and its members, I used a mixed method approach consisting of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Results show that the coalition was formed by educated individuals with an experience of migration, that managed to bring together volunteers and NGOs so that they can address different problems affecting the region.

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“…The challenge of re-evaluating the Soviet architectural heritage is typical for many post-socialist countries, not just Ukraine (Ingerpuu 2018;Németh 2018;Kideckel 2018). This heritage consists of many types of buildings and environments that used to serve many different purposes, including industrial zones.…”

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“…Post-Soviet industrial history has captured researchers' attention quite recently, especially in the field of heritage studies. For example, Wicke et al (2018) present case studies from Hungary and Romania (Németh 2018;Kideckel 2018).…”

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Demolition or adaptation?: post-industrial buildings in Ukraine

Serhiiuk¹,

Kalakoski

2023

Buildings and Cities

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Three case studies are presented that assess the post-industrial development of industrial sites in Ukraine. The comparative analysis is based on (1) the geographical location on the territory of the country (Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Kharkiv), (2) the functional transformation of the buildings (from the initial functions to new ones), and(3) the impact on the further development of the urban environment (in urban planning, economic, environmental and social security directions). These sites are considered as post-Soviet architectural heritage, which have been overlooked by the society and positioned as dissonant and controversial. The stereotypical perceptions concerning industrial sites are examined in order to rethink their status in the future. The research shows that the question of industrial heritage is manifold and cannot be solved without understanding the complexity and uniqueness of each individual case.

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Identity and mining heritage in Romania’s Jiu Valley coal region

Cited by 5 publications

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Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania

Trajectories of value capture, strategic coupling and labour regime reconfiguration: Coal mining, automotives and business services in post-socialist Romania

An Exploratory Paper on Civil Society in Jiu Valley. The Case of Coalition ”valea Jiului Implicată”

Demolition or adaptation?: post-industrial buildings in Ukraine

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