Rus, Alin. (2007) The mineriads: between political manipulation and workers’ solidarity – foreword by Ruxandra Cesereanu, introduction by John Glendhill, Bucharest, Curtea Veche
Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology - Year 2011, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Jiu Valley and the miners have represented for the Romanian society a continuous point of returning and this time the author suggests that an ingression in the recent history of Romania should be made through the instruments of the social sciences. Aware of the strong negative image which the miners have created in the eyes of Romanians, the author unfolds a courageous step to analyze the mineriads from the point of view of the main actors from Jiu Valley involved in these events. The work opens with a short comparative analysis of the beginning of transition in Romania, Albania and Czechoslovakia, an analysis written by John Gledhill. Starting from the analysis of the main characteristics of the fights for the political power in the post socialist societies, Gledhill gives great importance to the intercession of Alin Rus to answer the following question: “why were the miners ( more as any social group) so implicated in the political violence of the post decembrist period?”(p. 13) The book, ”The mineriads: between political manipulation and workers’ solidarity" is structured in two distinctive parts amounting seven chapters The first part of the book contains three chapters: Mineriads - analyses and interpretation", ”Mineriads - chronological reconstruction" and ”Mineriads and other post Decembrist strikes of miners; the strikes from August 1993 and August 1994.” The second part of the book is shared in four chapters: ”The mineriad's image in the local press of Jiu Valley", ”Miron Cozma and the mineriads", “The mineriads as social movements" and ”From Karl Marx to the mineriads".
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Alin Croitoru
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