Escaping the Double Burden
Female Polish Workers in State Socialist Czechoslovakia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4217138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ondřej Klípa (0000-0003-0905-2889, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1009-1027 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/slr.2019.258 |
| OpenAlex | W3004347317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
From the 1960s to 1989, thousands of female Polish workers were sent to Czechoslovak enterprises. I analyze how the Polish women used their stay in the CSSR during the peak period of labor force cooperation to escape the dual burden of production and reproduction. My argument is that the advantageous position enjoyed by skilled male workers in state-socialist regimes could also partly apply to the otherwise vulnerable and marginalized unskilled female and migrant work force. Mutually countervailing policies of the two "cooperating" states, which in fact competed for the same workers, forced Czechoslovakia to relax control over the Poles and allowed the workers to choose relatively freely whether to stay in the host country or return. I conclude that these favorable conditions endowed the female Polish workers with agency and empowered them to flee from their determined roles in paternalist state-socialist society
Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Demographic economics · Dual (grammatical number · Economics · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Position (finance · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · European history and politics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
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The Workers' State
Socialist Escapes
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
From the Field to the Factory Floor
Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989
Women and state socialism
Globalization Under and After Socialism The Evolution of Transnational Capital in Central and Eastern Europe
Scarcity and Resentment
The politics of production
The socialist system
Recalcitrant Women
Wedded to Welfare? Working Mothers and the Welfare State in Communist Poland
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |