CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Skobic, Milan |
|---|---|
| Title | Acknowledging precarity: youth self-perception and labor conditions in a small town in vojvodina |
| Summary | This paper deals with youth self-perception in relation to the available wage-labor relations and conditions in Crvenka, a small, agriculture-oriented town in northern Serbia. Data was gathered mostly through interviews with young people who live in and around Crvenka. This topic has been chosen in order to illuminate the connection between the economic circumstances related to neo-liberalism in post-socialist space, including the economic and political subjectivity of youth in this place. The issue has been approached through the lens of multilayered concept of working class fragmentation, which entails the fragmentation of labor conditions, job opportunities, as well as imagined prospects. The argument is that such fragmentation is reproduced through nuanced and sometimes contradictory understandings of those, mostly precarious, labor conditions, but in a way which leaves space for construction of politicizing and emancipatory narratives. This has important implications for theoretical understandings of shifts in work-related self-perceptions by accounting for the array of different experiences and interpretations; while pointing toward the emergent trends which can lead to less fragmented and disoriented understanding of social life by youth on the periphery of individual nation-states. |
| Supervisor | Li Ju; Zentai Violetta |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/skobic_milan.pdf |
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