Escaping the Double Burden: Female Polish Workers in State Socialist Czechoslovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F19%3A10405201" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/19:10405201 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=IbIZvKNkSs" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=IbIZvKNkSs</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2019.258" target="_blank" >10.1017/slr.2019.258</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Escaping the Double Burden: Female Polish Workers in State Socialist Czechoslovakia
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Slavic Review
ISSN
0037-6779
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
78
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1009-1027
UT code for WoS article
000512506000012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85078812236