CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Djunda, Dragan |
|---|---|
| Title | Education for Exploitation: Creation of Students' Consent in the Serbian Internship Economy |
| Summary | This study analyzes the relations of control and resistance in the Serbian Vocational Education and Training (VET) program, which represents a case of internship economy. Its main goal is to present the micro-hegemonic relations between the students and the foreign shipyard, and to explain how these relations are embedded in the macro-hegemonic project of the competition state. The study suggests that the hegemonic relations are constituted through the narratives of unpaid labor that are broadly based on the company’s moralistic strategy of promoting itself as a generous and fair firm. The main source of the students’ consent lies in their imaginaries of the permanent and well-paid jobs in the shipyard that are built around the company’s hegemonic status in the destitute society. The study argues that the deployment of the narratives and the hegemonic status are structurally enabled by the competition state that is exclusively devoted to attracting foreign capital. The micro and macro hegemonic relations depicted in this way prove that the main purposes of the VET reform are to provide companies with legally unprotected and cheap workforce, and to socialize youth for precarious and exploitative jobs. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta; Li, Ju |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/djunda_dragan.pdf |
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