List of Illustrations

Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Context

Chapter 1. Populism, Moral Economy, Informality: Imbricating the Political
Chapter 2. Ukrainian Political Economy: Embedded in the Moral Economy of Property Regimes and Identity Cleavages

Part II: The City

Chapter 3. From a Military Outpost to an Oligarchic Stronghold
Chapter 4. Archeology of Power: Regimes of Domination Reflected in the Urban Infrastructure

Part III: The Factory

Chapter 5. Informality and Hierarchies at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Workplace
Chapter 6. Paternalism in Decay: Post-Post-Soviet Inertia
Chapter 7. Politicized Embeddedness, Depoliticized Disembeddedness: New Factory Regimes

Part IV: Everyday Politics

Chapter 8. Distinction and Class: Strategies of Self-Valorization
Chapter 9. Mapping Lay Virtues on the National Political Landscape
Chapter 10. Political Attitudes and Attitude to Politics: Apathy and Authoritarian Anti-Corruption

Conclusion

References
Index

The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

Denys Gorbach

346 pages, 20 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-298-9 Hb Published (March 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-299-6 eBook

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“There is elegant coverage and discussion of Ukraine’s recent history and politics. Conceptually and methodologically the book is coherent and well justified.” • Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University

“This is a very substantial body of work. The insights are both novel and nuanced. While the account is especially compelling in that it is centered in Ukraine, there really is no comparable work of this depth for any of the post-Soviet states.” • Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College

Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 and the popular response to the Russian invasion in 2022. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the book focuses on the moral economy that constitutes the working class and structures its relations with other social groups.

Denys Gorbach is a teaching and research adjunct at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research interests include political economy, social movements, and working-class formation in the post-Soviet region.

Series: Volume 36, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

Area: Central/Eastern Europe

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC050000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Social Classes; BUS082000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Industrial Management

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Contents

The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

Denys Gorbach

Series: Volume 36, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

Area: Central/Eastern Europe

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The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City

Denys Gorbach

Series: Volume 36, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Urban Studies

Area: Central/Eastern Europe