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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** Dear ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS Subscribers, I hope the following will be of interest to you: Getting By in Postsocialist Romania Labor, the Body, and Working-Class Culture David A. Kideckel A poignant portrayal of the price of postsocialist transition for industrial workers "David Kideckel challenges celebratory images of postsocialism by focusing on the often neglected working class and allowing the disenfranchised to speak for themselves. In so doing he provides a contribution to the ethnography of eastern Europe that speaks poignantly to broader discussions of work, class, and gender under neoliberalism." -Gerald Creed, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York This compelling ethnographic study describes how two groups of Romanian industrial workers have fared since the end of socialism. Once labor's elite, the celebrated coal miners of the Jiu Valley and the chemical workers of the Fagaras region had many social privileges and often derived genuine satisfaction from their work. Today, they are a rarely noted casualty of postsocialist transformations. Fear, distance, and alienation are the physical manifestations of stress experienced due to their precarious job status, declining health, and loss of a social safety net. Kideckel traces these issues in the context of labor, political relationships, domestic and community life, gender identities, and health. Drawing on more than three decades of fieldwork, he presents many narratives from select individuals, in their own words, providing a poignant and illuminating perspective on the everyday lives of ordinary people. David A. Kideckel is Professor of Anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of The Solitude of Collectivism: Romanian Villagers to the Revolution and Beyond and has produced a video documentary focusing on Romania's Jiu Valley coal miners, entitled Days of the Miners: Life and Death of a Working Class Culture. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Anthropologies of Europe Publication date: 2008 Format: paper 288 pages, 11 b&w photos, 2 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21940-4 ISBN: 0-253-21940-X PRICE: £13.99 PAPER SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE OF £10.00 to ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS Subscribers Postage and Packing £2.75 To order a copy please contact Marston on 44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask] or visit our website www.combinedacademic.co.uk (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: AM1268GB for discount) Julia Monk Marketing Manager Combined Academic Publishers Cantles Forewood Lane Crowhurst East Sussex TN33 9AB Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1424 830071 Email: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************