Underground waterlines

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2616437
AutoresDenys Gorbach (0000-0003-3071-5480, Sciences Po (Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies) [email protected], autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen2019
Número84
Páginas33-46
Fecha de publicación2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFocaal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fcl.2019.032103
OpenAlexW4247312052
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas30

In order to explore factors conditioning the political quietude of Ukrainian labor, this article analyzes ethnographic data collected at two large enterprises: the Kyiv Metro and the privatized electricity supplier Kyivenergo. Focusing on a recent labor conflict, I unpack various contexts condensed in it. I analyze the hegemonic configuration developed in the early 1990s, at the workplace and at the macro level, and follow its later erosion. Th is configuration has been based on labor hoarding, distribution of nonwage resources, and patronage networks, featuring the foreman as the nodal figure. On the macro scale, it relied on the mediation by unions, supported by resources accumulated during the Soviet era and the economic boom of the 2000s. The depletion of these resources has spelled the ongoing crisis of this configuration

Boom · Business · Economic system · Economics · Hegemony · Mediation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ukrainian · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History