Privatization in biographical perspective between embeddedness, adaptability and oppression
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https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-600X.41.14Keywords:
sociology of work, qualitative research, privatization, transformation, narrative biographical interviewAbstract
The article presents initial analysis based on research on privatization in biographical perspective. Narrative biographical interviews with workers from companies privatized in first years of transformation serve as a material to inquire the meaning of privatization for individual biographies. On the basis of in-depth analysis of two interviews, authors describe twofold nature of privatization’s influence on biography: its impact on individual biography and the senses inscribed to privatization by individuals. Authors reconstruct the visions of work in interviewees’ life and interpretations of political and social transformation in Poland in 1990s. Refraining from common dichotomization between homo sovieticus and homo oeconomicus, authors describe multifaceted and ambiguous means of experiencing and interpreting privatization by interviewees. Despite different judgements on transformation and embeddedness in various social milieus, interviewed workers shared the need to retain their subjectivity and the objection to excessive individualization in workplace. Navigating between embeddedness, adaptability and oppression, the interviewees in spite of artificial categories and dividing, aimed at keeping their subjectivity and dignity in changing social conditions.
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