Doctoral Dissertation: Variability and Control of Industrial Work Organization in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic

人类学博士生的这个项目调查了后社会主义环境（捷克共和国）中的产业工人和管理者如何采取影响经济向完全资本主义企业形式“转型”的战略。通过调查、访谈，并作为工厂的一名员工，学生将收集所需的数据来分析工人群体思考他们的工作和组织自己的过程，以及这些过程如何反过来影响特定企业内的过程和目标。该研究还将记录工人之间的政治进程，并确定工厂内如何行使权力和权威。 这项研究将为不同文化中工业工作的理论体系做出贡献，并将提供企业管理的实用方法以及对该地区商业企业的宝贵见解。

This project by a doctoral student of anthropology investigates how industrial workers and managers in a post-socialist setting (the Czech Republic) pursue strategies which impact the economic "transition" to fully capitalist forms of enterprise. Through surveys, interviews, and as an employee in the factory setting, the student will collect the data needed to analyze the processes whereby groups of workers come to think about their work and organize themselves, and how these, in turn, affect processes and goals within specific enterprises. The research will also document the political processes among workers and identify how power and authority are exercised within the factory. This research will contribute to the body of theory regarding industrial work in different cultures and will provide practical approaches to enterprise management as well as valuable insight to business ventures in the region.