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The veterans’ gala: the use of tradition in an industrial labour conflict in contemporary Kazakhstan

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  • Tommaso Trevisani

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Since its privatization in 1995, Kazakhstan’s largest steel mill has been in a restructuring process characterized by workforce reduction, augmented pressure on remaining jobs and labour conflict over wages, work conditions and corporate social responsibility. In 2013, in an attempt to re-establish harmonious relationships with workers, management invited the mill’s former labour aristocracy to join a newly established veterans’ council, a forum resembling traditional aksakal councils, to discuss the company’s difficult situation. In the context of a banquet in honour of the veterans, tradition became the contested terrain over which labour and capital struggled to endorse their own visions of the industrial future. As corporate capitalist visions of efficiency and professionalism, ethno-national concerns for harmony and stability, and practices rooted in the Soviet labour legacy clash, tradition is staged by actors as a practice which can either affirm or challenge industrial leadership in a labour conflict.

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  • Tommaso Trevisani, 2019. "The veterans’ gala: the use of tradition in an industrial labour conflict in contemporary Kazakhstan," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 381-399, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:38:y:2019:i:3:p:381-399
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2019.1609905
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