DOCUMENTS OF THE TRADE UNION COMMITTEE OF THE «ZAPORIZHSTAN» PLANT ON THE FIGHT AGAINST HARASSMENT IN THE COLLECTIVE (EARLY 1950’s)

Keywords: “Zaporizhstal”, industrial workers,, harassment,, gender history,

Abstract

The article demonstrates the informational potential of documents originating from the current archive of the trade union committee of the "Zaporizhstal" plant in the early 1950s. Thanks to the analysis of the minutes of the meetings of the trade union committee for the year 1952, were reconstructed several episodes of harassment that took place in the relations between male and female employees. Examining similar situations at the micro-historical level made it possible to analyze the mechanism of gender harassment and resistance to it. It was shown that harassment in the treatment of female colleagues, especially subordinates, in the industrial enterprises of the Ukrainian SSR were a common phenomenon characteristic of the Stalinist era as a whole, and the punishment of the perpetrators could only be expected when the perpetrators were representatives of the lower ranks factory administration.

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Published
2022-11-21
How to Cite
Kryvko, I., & Podluzhnyi, A. (2022). DOCUMENTS OF THE TRADE UNION COMMITTEE OF THE «ZAPORIZHSTAN» PLANT ON THE FIGHT AGAINST HARASSMENT IN THE COLLECTIVE (EARLY 1950’s). Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 6(58), 229-234. Retrieved from https://istznu.org/index.php/journal/article/view/2413