CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
In enforcing liberal market economy in post-socialist independent Macedonia dramatic economic changes affected the lives of a group of young female engineers in Skopje. Entering one of the most prestigious professions in Yugoslavia, engineers in the independent and contested Republic of Macedonia f...
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In enforcing liberal market economy in post-socialist independent Macedonia dramatic economic changes affected the lives of a group of young female engineers in Skopje. Entering one of the most prestigious professions in Yugoslavia, engineers in the independent and contested Republic of Macedonia found themselves in a class mobility they had not anticipated. Foreign agencies define a new working class, a new emerging class of ‘noveau rich’ alters ownership. I argue that, in redefining their relationship to the process of production through their consumption patterns and not through their labor my
group of informants subvert the new emerging class mobility in Macedonia.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee64099a29ac41279d6669e0a9abf35a2023-12-01T09:51:07ZengSs Cyril and Methodius University in SkopjeEtnoAntropoZum1409-939X1857-968X2018-10-01151510.37620/EAZ16150029tCONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIAIlka Thiessen0Department of Anthropology, Vancouver Island University In enforcing liberal market economy in post-socialist independent Macedonia dramatic economic changes affected the lives of a group of young female engineers in Skopje. Entering one of the most prestigious professions in Yugoslavia, engineers in the independent and contested Republic of Macedonia found themselves in a class mobility they had not anticipated. Foreign agencies define a new working class, a new emerging class of ‘noveau rich’ alters ownership. I argue that, in redefining their relationship to the process of production through their consumption patterns and not through their labor my group of informants subvert the new emerging class mobility in Macedonia. https://etno.pmf.ukim.mk/index.php/eaz/article/view/378Macedoniasocial mobilityclass |
| spellingShingle | Ilka Thiessen CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA EtnoAntropoZum Macedonia social mobility class |
| title | CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
| title_full | CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
| title_fullStr | CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
| title_full_unstemmed | CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
| title_short | CONCOMITANTS OF INDEPENDENCE: CLASS MOBILITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA |
| title_sort | concomitants of independence class mobility in the republic of macedonia |
| topic | Macedonia social mobility class |
| url | https://etno.pmf.ukim.mk/index.php/eaz/article/view/378 |
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