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2022 | 109 | 2 | 147-168

Article title

Nehodit se do dnešní doby: dělníci v továrně korporace Baťa

Content

Title variants

EN
Not right for these days: workers at the Bata Corporation factory

Languages of publication

CS

Abstracts

EN
The paper investigates the factory in the context of a multinational corporation. The historical-structural background for capturing the changes in the factory is both post-socialism and the conditions of neoliberalism. Drawing on conceptualizations from critical sociology, critical approaches to neoliberalism, and new working-class studies, the author focuses on how the structural transformation of socioeconomic conditions translates into the work in the factory and what implications this has for how workers and managers experience work and their own identities. Based on ethnographic research at the Baťa shoe factory, I identify a culture of precarious responsibility, which I characterize through four dimensions: management’s disengagement from responsibility, workers’ assumption of responsibility, the imposition of economization.

Year

Volume

109

Issue

2

Pages

147-168

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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