Getting by in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, & Working-Class Culture

by David A. Kideckel

Book Overview

This compelling ethnographic study describes how two groups of Romanian industrial workers have fared since the end of socialism. Once labor's elite, the celebrated coal miners of the Jiu Valley and the chemical workers of the Fagaras region had many social privileges and often derived genuine satisfaction from their work. Today, they are a rarely noted casualty of postsocialist transformations. Fear, distance, and alienation are the physical manifestations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025321940X
• ISBN13: 9780253219404
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher