CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Bagdziunaite, Agne |
|---|---|
| Title | Multiplied Burdens or Honorable Duty? Working Women, Trade Unions and Women's Councils in Soviet Lithuania 1985 - 1988 |
| Summary | This thesis is a multi-focal local history of women‘s work-place related organizing and action in the city of Kaunas in Soviet Lithuania. Building on the analysis of a rich array of primary material, it explores women‘s participation in the state ‘voluntary’ or “mass” organisations and contributes to the social and political history of the Soviet Union at the time of perestroika. The primary focus of the research is women’s participation in women’s councils and trade unions. Due to the employment politics of Soviet Union and the five-year planning of production, the workerist doctrine of Soviet state is taken into account when women’s participation in women’s councils and in trade unions are analysed. A key problem addressed in this research is the exclusion of the development of the Soviet industrial relations from the historical analysis of women’s councils and trade unions activities. In order to develop a thorough analysis of women’s councils and trade unions, the complexity of the relation between women and state and subsequently, the gendered division of labor and the Soviet modernity are included, as well as industrial development and commodification of labor. |
| Supervisor | Zimmermann Susan |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/bagdziunaite_agne.pdf |
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