Miners and Wives in Romania's Jiu Valley: Perspectives on Postsocialist Class, Gender, and Social Change

Kideckel, David A.

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“…More recently, in the 2000s, Elizabeth Dunn (), Chris Hann (), David Kideckel (, , ) and Alison Stenning et al (), among others, provided empirically rich yet theoretically insightful and satisfying contributions on particular forms of neo‐capitalism and “domestications” of neoliberalism in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia/Poland, respectively. Stenning et al .…”

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“…More recently, in the 2000s, Elizabeth Dunn (2004), Chris Hann (2006), David Kideckel (2002Kideckel ( , 2004Kideckel ( , 2008 and A third vector studies work and class in postsocialist societies in an intersectional manner. This is not so much a cultural, as an ethnographic turn in the scholarship on postsocialist work and often involves native scholarship.…”

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An agenda for research on work and class in the postsocialist world

Morris

2017

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews the scholarly treatment of work and class in postsocialist states. It traces how class discourses under socialism led to a lack of meaningful working class studies in the postsocialist academy. It offers as an agenda for future research three points of departure: (a) greater confrontation of the one‐sided discourse on class in these societies and the academy itself (class blindness of research). (b) The value in studying postsocialist societies both comparatively to global North and South, and as an intermediate positioning for worker exploitation and responses in global capitalism. (c) To achieve the first 2 agenda items, a more grounded methodological approach proceeding from the lived experience of class and work is proposed. Current research on social networks, memory studies and personhood, the informal economy, deindustrialization, and the “domestication” of neoliberalism show that empirically grounded work on postsocialist working classes can make important contributions to wider social science debates. Studying the “losers” of postcommunist transition can tell us much about populist politics, the rise of the global working class outside the global North and the nature of global capitalist exploitation more generally. In addition, this agenda serves as an important point of departure from the dominant middle class focus of research in postsocialism.

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An agenda for research on work and class in the postsocialist world

Morris

2017

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“…Strong occupational identities spread from mines into communities and render all women as 'miners' wives, or as 'reluctant pioneers' who are unwillingly thrown into mining frontiers (Kideckel 2004;Momsen 1990, 130;Murphy 1997;Pearson 1970). The exaggerated masculinity of mining cultures lead to the portrayal by social historians of mining women as being unproductive and isolated, unable to defy domestic oppression and being home-bound to take care of husbands and sons.…”

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Digging women: towards a new agenda for feminist critiques of mining

Lahiri‐Dutt

2012

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article addresses how a contemporary feminist perspective can problematise the ancient human endeavour of mining, and indicates which direction research on the interface between extractive industries and gender could usefully take. Feminist research has confronted masculinist discourses of mining by questioning the naturalisation of men as industrial workers, and by illustrating the gender-selective impacts of capitalist mining projects. The article probes the sources of these masculinist discourses of mining and reinterprets these critiques. Most importantly, by highlighting the diverse range of extractive practices that reflect different stages of surplus accumulation, it encourages a rethinking of mining itself as an area of feminine work. Finally, it makes tentative suggestions as to how the field of women and mining might be examined and addressed by contemporary feminists. A postcapitalist feminist critique of mining would hinge upon revealing women's agency in mining and revisit the conventional definitions of mining as industrial work and begin to see the feminine livelihoods in mining.

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“…During a 12-month period in 2002-3, 827,000 Romanian women described themselves as having been frequently subjected to some form of domestic violence and over 340,000 children witnessed physical violence in the home (Center for Partnership and Equality, 2003). Robila and Krishnakumar (2005) and Kideckel (2004) discussed the increase in Romanian domestic violence related to economic difficulties as the country moved from communism to a market economy.…”

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Domestic violence services in Romania

Wimmer

Harrington

2008

International Social Work

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English A domestic violence program in Sighisoara, Romania was developed as a partnership between a US university and a Romanian NGO through USAID funding. Goals included capacity building and direct service. This successful program was evaluated using a longitudinal case study methodology from 2003 to 2007. French Un programme pour contrer la violence conjugale a été mis au point à Sighisora, en Roumanie, par une ONG locale, en collaboration avec une université américaine, et avec l'appui financier de USAID. Les objectifs visaient le renforcement des capacités et la prestation de services. Ce programme porteur a été évalué de 2003 à 2007 en appliquant la méthode d'analyse de cas longitudinale. Spanish En Sighisoara, Rumania, ha sido desarrollado un programa para la violencia doméstica en colaboración entre una universidad norteamericana y una ONG rumana, a través de la USAID. Las metas incluyeron la formación de capacidades y el servicio directo. Este exitoso programa fue evaluado mediante una metodología de estudio de caso longitudinal, de 2003 a 2007.

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Miners and Wives in Romania's Jiu Valley: Perspectives on Postsocialist Class, Gender, and Social Change

Cited by 34 publications

References 21 publications

An agenda for research on work and class in the postsocialist world

An agenda for research on work and class in the postsocialist world

Digging women: towards a new agenda for feminist critiques of mining

Domestic violence services in Romania

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