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Shifting Identities in the Life Histories of Working-Class Women in Socialist Hungary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2005

Eszter Zsófia Tóth
Eszter Zsófia Tóth
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Politics, Budapest
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Abstract

This article explores how working-class women who belonged to the prize-winning Liberation Brigade of the Budapest Hosiery Factory in the 1970s represented their identities at different stages of their lives in oral-history interviews conducted with the author between 1998 and 2003. It argues that these identities had a deeply ambiguous relationship to those that the official discourse of the socialist era ascribed to them. Issues of consent, accommodation, and opposition are raised, which not only shaped identities under socialism, but continue to shape working-class memory of the period.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 68 , October 2005 , pp. 75 - 92
Copyright
© 2005 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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Footnotes

This article is based on my PhD thesis “A munkásság életmódja Magyarországon 1930–1989 között. Egy Állami Díjas női brigád mikrotörténete” (Budapest, 2003). The interviews cited in the article were conducted by the author.