Nostalgia as a Tool for Criticism of Economic Transformation: Myth of Benevolent Owner in Workers’Life Stories Cover Image

Nostalgia jako narzędzie krytyki transformacji. Mit dobrego właściciela w opowieściach pracowników fabrycznych
Nostalgia as a Tool for Criticism of Economic Transformation: Myth of Benevolent Owner in Workers’Life Stories

Author(s): Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając, Joanna Wawrzyniak
Subject(s): Economic history, Social history, Behaviorism, Economic development, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Business Ethics, Globalization
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: Nostalgia; Work; Transformation; Organizational Story; Moral Economy;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses factory workers’ nostalgia in the times of sudden and radical transformation of their work environment. It presents nostalgia’s sources, meanings, and functions in the light of a case study of confectionery factory in Poland. It shows nostalgia not only as a part of workers’ moral economy, but also as their tool to criticize transformation, which helps them to delimit their community and to interpret the changes in conditions of employment and organization of production.

  • Issue Year: XII/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 36-54
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish