Getting by in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, & Working-Class Culture
(Part of the New Anthropologies of Europe Series)
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This compelling ethnographic study describes how two groups of Romanian industrial workers have fared since the end of socialism. Once labor's elite, the celebrated coal miners of the Jiu Valley and the chemical workers of the Fagaras region had many social privileges and often derived genuine satisfaction from their work. Today, they are a rarely noted casualty of postsocialist transformations. Fear, distance, and alienation are the physical manifestations...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:025321940X
ISBN13:9780253219404
Release Date:February 2008
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.8" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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