| ID | 131105 |
| Title Proper | Local workforce of international intervention in the Yugoslav successor states |
| Other Title Information | precariat' or 'projectariat'? towards an agenda for future research |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Baker, Catherine |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The international organizations involved in peacebuilding, democratization and peacekeeping in the Yugoslav successor states have employed thousands of locally recruited workers as project officers, language intermediaries and support staff. This makes them a distinct employment sector within these post-socialist and in several cases post-conflict economies, most significantly in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. This paper evaluates arguments in favour of regarding this workforce firstly as a group of workers suffering precarity and secondly as a privileged social elite. While there are good grounds for recognizing them as a distinctive social group, this distinctiveness has not led to a widely expressed social identity based on the commonalities of their employment. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Peacekeeping Vol. 21, No.1; Feb 2014: p.91-106 |
| Journal Source | International Peacekeeping Vol. 21, No.1; Feb 2014: p.91-106 |
| Key Words | International Organizations ; Peacebuilding ; Democratization ; Bosnia - Harzegovina ; Kosovo ; Social Identity ; Employment |