‘I have to like it’: Working-class awareness among workers at a Bata shoe factory

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00130618" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00130618 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RGNGKERFJWB4YSTIWEAM/full" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RGNGKERFJWB4YSTIWEAM/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07255136231165803" target="_blank" >10.1177/07255136231165803</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

‘I have to like it’: Working-class awareness among workers at a Bata shoe factory

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The working class has been interpreted within various disciplines and conceptual frameworks, some pointing to the gap between the depiction of the working class as a potentially active social force in the neoliberal deregulated global market and its portrayal as a suffering class of the marginal and excluded. In this text, I move behind this dichotomy to explore the everyday experiences of working-class men and women. Based on ethnographic research at the Bata shoe factory in the Czech Republic, I examine the meanings factory workers attach to their working classness. I investigate their sense of place in society in general. I argue that class matters in the workers’ perceptions of the self. On the one hand, the workers adopt the awareness of subalternity in relation to the educational and further the labor field that ranks them among the lowest positions. On the other hand, they take individual pride in their endurance of the hard work that shoemaking is believed to be. The committed work and emphasis on collectivity turn the microorganism of the factory into a place of mutual discipline, where the praised collectivity functions also as a tool for enhancing work effectivity, also in the interest of the management. By pointing to the concrete dimensions in which they balance the feelings of pride and shame, belonging, and symbolic displacement, I contribute to the sociological understanding of contemporary working classness.

Název v anglickém jazyce

‘I have to like it’: Working-class awareness among workers at a Bata shoe factory

Popis výsledku anglicky

The working class has been interpreted within various disciplines and conceptual frameworks, some pointing to the gap between the depiction of the working class as a potentially active social force in the neoliberal deregulated global market and its portrayal as a suffering class of the marginal and excluded. In this text, I move behind this dichotomy to explore the everyday experiences of working-class men and women. Based on ethnographic research at the Bata shoe factory in the Czech Republic, I examine the meanings factory workers attach to their working classness. I investigate their sense of place in society in general. I argue that class matters in the workers’ perceptions of the self. On the one hand, the workers adopt the awareness of subalternity in relation to the educational and further the labor field that ranks them among the lowest positions. On the other hand, they take individual pride in their endurance of the hard work that shoemaking is believed to be. The committed work and emphasis on collectivity turn the microorganism of the factory into a place of mutual discipline, where the praised collectivity functions also as a tool for enhancing work effectivity, also in the interest of the management. By pointing to the concrete dimensions in which they balance the feelings of pride and shame, belonging, and symbolic displacement, I contribute to the sociological understanding of contemporary working classness.

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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Thesis Eleven

ISSN

0725-5136

e-ISSN

1461-7455

Svazek periodika

175

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

108-125

Kód UT WoS článku

000974103700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85153395579