SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ADAPTATION OF MINING WORKERS OF THE URALS REGION IN THE LATE OF THE XIX - THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY.

Autor: Korobkov, Yuriy, Velikanova, Svetlana, Arakcheeva, Zinaida, Kozhushkova, Natalia, Chernykh, Oksana, Antipanova, Nadezhda
Zdroj: Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art & Communication; 2017 Special Edition, Vol. 7, p1219-1226, 8p
Abstrakt: Instability of the socio-economic development of post-Soviet Russia and the serious social costs of the political course of its leadership have put forward the study of the adaptation of various social groups to it among the priorities of Russian sociology. Given the long-time forming the adaptation practices and enshrining them into mass consciousness during lifetime of several generations, this problem demands is consideration using the historical data of the Soviet and pre-Soviet Russia. The choice of the research topic is determined by this cause, as well as by insufficient knowledge of those subjects on the example of Urals Region mining workers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. All the strategies of adaptation of the Ural workers considered in the paper were divided into active and passive adaptation models. The first include various attempts to improve the production activities of their enterprises, including the introduction of workers' control over them, practice in handicrafts and secondary employment in agriculture sector. The main traits of the passive variant of social and economic adaptation were the appeal of the Ural workers to the past, the desire for the preservation of various elements of binding relations and the paternalistic attitudes of mass consciousness. In real life, the mixed nature of the adaptive behavior of Ural workers was the most widespread. Among the main adaptive-forming factors, the authors have identified influence of the features of the mining district system, the psychology of local workers and the socio-cultural mechanism of the "archaization of consciousness". The latter two, in turn, made it difficult to modernize the mining industry of the region. In general, the level of adaptation of Ural workers is assessed as unsuccessful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index