'I just don't want to connect my life with this occupation': working-class young men, manual labour, and social mobility in contemporary Russia.

Autor/in	Walker, Charlie
Titel	'I just don't want to connect my life with this occupation': working-class young men, manual labour, and social mobility in contemporary Russia. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: 'Ich möchte mein Leben nicht dieser Arbeit widmen': junge Männer aus der Arbeiterklasse, manuelle Arbeit und soziale Mobilität im modernen Russland.
Quelle	In: The British journal of sociology, 69 (2018) 1, S. 207-225 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1315; 1468-4446
DOI	10.1111/1468-4446.12299
Schlagwörter	Rollenverständnis; Soziale Mobilität; Geschlechterrolle; Arbeiterklasse; Neoliberalismus; Transformation; Ausbildung; Berufsausbildung; Sozialer Aufstieg; Karriereplanung; Manuelle Arbeit; Absolvent; Auszubildender; Junger Erwachsener; Mann; Russe; Osteuropa; Russland; Sankt Petersburg
Abstract	"A key strand in the Western literature on working-class masculinities focuses on whether young men are capable of the feminized performances apparently required of them in new service economies. However, the wider literature on processes of neoliberalization - emphasizing the 'hollowing out' of labour markets, the cultural devaluation of lower-skilled forms of employment, and the pathologization of working-class lives - would suggest that it is as much a classed as a gendered transformation that is demanded of young men leaving school with few qualifications. This dimension of neoliberalization is highlighted by ethnographic data exploring the experiences and subjectivities of young workers in St Petersburg, Russia, where traditional forms of manual labour have not given way to 'feminized' work, but have become materially and symbolically impoverished, and are perceived as incapable of supporting the wider transition into adult independence. In this context, young workers attempt to emulate new forms of 'successful masculinity' connected with novel service sector professions and the emergent higher education system, despite the unlikelihood of overcoming a range of structural and cultural barriers. These acquiescent, individualized responses indicate that, while ways of being a man are apparently being liberated from old constraints amongst the more privileged, neoliberalization narrows the range of subject positions available to working-class young men." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/3