The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

Denys Gorbach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-298-9 (ISBN)

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Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 and the popular response to the Russian invasion in 2022. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the book focuses on the moral economy that constitutes the working class and structures its relations with other social groups.

Denys Gorbach is a teaching and research adjunct at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research interests include political economy, social movements, and working-class formation in the post-Soviet region.

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Introduction

Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Context

Chapter 1. Populism, Moral Economy, Informality: Imbricating the Political

Chapter 2. Ukrainian Political Economy: Embedded in the Moral Economy of Property Regimes and Identity Cleavages

Part II: The City

Chapter 3. From a Military Outpost to an Oligarchic Stronghold

Chapter 4. Archeology of Power: Regimes of Domination Reflected in the Urban Infrastructure

Part III: The Factory

Chapter 5. Informality and Hierarchies at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Workplace

Chapter 6. Paternalism in Decay: Post-Post-Soviet Inertia

Chapter 7. Politicized Embeddedness, Depoliticized Disembeddedness: New Factory Regimes

Part IV: Everyday Politics

Chapter 8. Distinction and Class: Strategies of Self-Valorization

Chapter 9. Mapping Lay Virtues on the National Political Landscape

Chapter 10. Political Attitudes and Attitude to Politics: Apathy and Authoritarian Anti-Corruption

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-298-0 / 1805392980
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-298-9 / 9781805392989
Zustand	Neuware