Fiddling, drinking and stealing

Moral code in the Soviet Estonian mining industry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12529428
AutoresEeva Kesküla (0000-0002-5359-5584, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen20
Número2
Páginas237-253
Fecha de publicación2013-04-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13507486.2013.766522
OpenAlexW2115690749
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas18

This article explores workplace cheating taking place in the oil-shale mines in the north-eastern part of Soviet Estonia from the 1950s to 1980s. The author focuses on four different types of workplace cheating and misbehaviour: fiddling with production numbers; fiddling with health and safety; drinking and absenteeism; and stealing. These were not the only types of cheating taking place, but were more significant in the mining area and most prevalent in the memoirs and oral histories recorded or published in the 2000s. Analysing these four types, the author carves out the moral code of workplace cheating, as well as the acceptable levels of each of these activities. She also emphasises that this type of cheating was closely tied to the overall logic of the Soviet system in which fiddling required co-operation with colleagues, often between workers and managers, while also looking out for individual interests. Further, the author shows that due to the similar shared experiences of workers and engineers/managers, their overall class experience and consciousness, including their moral code regarding cheating at the workplace, was very similar

Absenteeism · Appearance of impropriety · Cheating · Code of conduct · Consciousness · Criminology · Deception · Estonian · Linguistics · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology · Soviet and Russian History

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