CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Tzeneva, Kamelia Georgieva |
|---|---|
| Title | Women on women: a study of the communist press and women tobacco workers in interwar Bulgaria |
| Summary | This thesis explores the history of women tobacco workers in Bulgaria in the interwar period, as considered through the analysis of three communist periodicals. It reconstructs women’s working conditions and their struggles as gendered workers through the analysis of articles within the periodicals which concern their experience and relationships to organised struggle. The relationship between organised and unorganised women workers is explored as present in the writings of contributors to the newspapers. In light of the gendered nature of working women’s precarious condition which was characterised by risks of being dismissed on grounds related to them being perceived as women and by gendered harassment among other factors, I argue that the notion of precarity as conceived in labour history needs to be reconceptualised in light of its contingency on power structures. I consider the ways in which women writers constructed the groups of organised and unorganised working women. I argue that despite contributors’ insistence on the irreplaceability of union membership, the collective struggles of organised and unorganised women overlapped significantly, as did their rates of success. Apart from contributing to feminist labour history, the thesis makes a contribution to the field of periodical studies by addressing the scarce engagement with labour-related periodicals in the field and discussing issues of authorship. |
| Supervisor | Zimmermann, Susan Carin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/tzeneva_kamelia.pdf |
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