Restructuring Marriage and Family in Industrial Kazakhstan

Axes of Inequality and Conjugality in a Former Soviet Steel Plant

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ID10315403
AuthorsTommaso Trevisani (0000-0001-9092-030X, Associate Professor, Dipartimento Asia, Africa, Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” Naples Italy, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume100
Issue2
Pages200-224
Publication date2021-04-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOriente Moderno (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-5472 • E-ISSN: 2213-8617
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22138617-12340249
OpenAlexW3154591322
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

This paper addresses how changing patterns of conjugality, family and labour play out in a gender-mixed, multi-ethnic industrial setting built in Soviet times and nowadays owned by foreign corporate capital. Matrimonial relationships among Kazakhstani steel workers have come under sustained pressure as a consequence of privatization and labour restructuring. As a result, workers must accommodate their family lives and partnership prospects to their own precarious situation in an increasingly adverse world of industrial labour. Kazakh, Russian, male, female, precarious and regular workers are differently affected and adopt different strategies. Mirroring workplace related inequalities, marriage and family patterns rooted in distinctive traditions in multi-ethnic Kazakhstan are currently being reshaped. At the same time, marriage and family have become more important in determining workers’ wellbeing at work and beyond

Capital (architecture · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · General partnership · Inequality · Kazakh · Mirroring · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Turkey's Politics and Society

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