Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 744708
Gods in hell shaft, anonymous in history. Shock workers as a paradigm of an ideological use and (mis)interpretation of body
Gods in hell shaft, anonymous in history. Shock workers as a paradigm of an ideological use and (mis)interpretation of body // Performance Studies International, Conference 15 –Misperformance
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 2009. (predavanje, nije recenziran, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Gods in hell shaft, anonymous in history. Shock workers as a paradigm of an ideological use and (mis)interpretation of body
Autori
Matošević, Andrea
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Skup
Performance Studies International, Conference 15 –Misperformance
Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 24.06.2009. - 28.06.2009
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran
Ključne riječi
labor aristocracy; socialism; Aleksei Stakhanov; coalminers; body
Sažetak
A Soviet “invention” which spread trough all socialist countries - “Shock-work system” (Stakhanovism) - was, in the post-Second World War period, claimed to be the “only way” in which industrial production could be increased exponentially. The movement was named after the miner Aleksei Stakhanov, who in the night of August 30-31, 1935 hewed 102 tons of coal, or fourteen times his quota. His system rapidly spread in agriculture and all industrial sectors. Mostly recruited from manual workers, these individuals (Stakhanovists) were often called Homines extraordinarii for their working capacity, creativity and sacrifice - socialism claimed hard work as an anthropogenic and demiurgic necessity. Even if praised as absolute heroes whose methods of work were exclusively inherent to the new socialist ideology, the very core of Stakhanovism, its basic elements can be found in Taylorist and Fordist principles of scientific management as part and parcel of the “Western” rationalization of work. From its very outset, the “labor aristocracy” example, whose role was also to abolish the distinction between managerial conceptualization of work tasks and workers’ execution of them, contained instructions on how to live as well as on how to work. The control of the body and its impulses becomes central to understanding the movement. Although shock workers were depicted in the mass media as “larger than life and nature”, as time passed, they turned into weakened and anonymous individuals whose example did not match the propagated rule of permanency.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija
