The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class
Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City
Published on 15. March 2024
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-1-80539-298-9 (ISBN)
Description
Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 and the popular response to the Russian invasion in 2022. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the book focuses on the moral economy that constitutes the working class and structures its relations with other social groups.
Reviews / Votes
"This book will be of interest to anyone who cares about the political economy of Ukraine, or of the working class in the post-Soviet region more broadly...[Its] insights are both novel and nuanced... While Gorbach's account is especially compelling in that it is centered on Ukraine, there really is no comparable work of this depth for any of the post-Soviet states, all of which continue to struggle with the politics of deindustrialization." * The Russian Review"There is elegant coverage and discussion of Ukraine's recent history and politics. Conceptually and methodologically the book is coherent and well justified." * Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University
"This is a very substantial body of work. The insights are both novel and nuanced. While the account is especially compelling in that it is centered in Ukraine, there really is no comparable work of this depth for any of the post-Soviet states." * Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
647 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80539-298-9 (9781805392989)
DOI
10.3167/9781805392989
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Denys Gorbach
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class
Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City
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03/2024
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Denys Gorbach
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class
Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City
E-Book
03/2024
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€22.49
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Person
Denys Gorbach is a teaching and research adjunct at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research interests include political economy, social movements, and working-class formation in the post-Soviet region.
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Context
Chapter 1. Populism, Moral Economy, Informality: Imbricating the Political
Chapter 2. Ukrainian Political Economy: Embedded in the Moral Economy of Property Regimes and Identity Cleavages
Part II: The City
Chapter 3. From a Military Outpost to an Oligarchic Stronghold
Chapter 4. Archeology of Power: Regimes of Domination Reflected in the Urban Infrastructure
Part III: The Factory
Chapter 5. Informality and Hierarchies at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Workplace
Chapter 6. Paternalism in Decay: Post-Post-Soviet Inertia
Chapter 7. Politicized Embeddedness, Depoliticized Disembeddedness: New Factory Regimes
Part IV: Everyday Politics
Chapter 8. Distinction and Class: Strategies of Self-Valorization
Chapter 9. Mapping Lay Virtues on the National Political Landscape
Chapter 10. Political Attitudes and Attitude to Politics: Apathy and Authoritarian Anti-Corruption
Conclusion
References
Index
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Context
Chapter 1. Populism, Moral Economy, Informality: Imbricating the Political
Chapter 2. Ukrainian Political Economy: Embedded in the Moral Economy of Property Regimes and Identity Cleavages
Part II: The City
Chapter 3. From a Military Outpost to an Oligarchic Stronghold
Chapter 4. Archeology of Power: Regimes of Domination Reflected in the Urban Infrastructure
Part III: The Factory
Chapter 5. Informality and Hierarchies at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Workplace
Chapter 6. Paternalism in Decay: Post-Post-Soviet Inertia
Chapter 7. Politicized Embeddedness, Depoliticized Disembeddedness: New Factory Regimes
Part IV: Everyday Politics
Chapter 8. Distinction and Class: Strategies of Self-Valorization
Chapter 9. Mapping Lay Virtues on the National Political Landscape
Chapter 10. Political Attitudes and Attitude to Politics: Apathy and Authoritarian Anti-Corruption
Conclusion
References
Index