Tukhta: labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag

IF 0.7 4区 管理学 Q1 HISTORY
John Welsh
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Working from the memoir literature of Soviet Gulag survivors, the article explores the curious practice of tukhta as contrived by the toiling zeks of the archipelago. In a labour regime tasked with accumulating surplus, destroying political dissent, and transforming the subjectivity of the imprisoned, tukhta proved to be a tactical means for resisting the logic of Gulag as an audit regime. The subtle labour control of numbers effected by Gulag demanded equally sophisticated practices of resistance on the part of the zeks subjected to its technique, and tukhta was one of those practices. When treated as a kind of phronesis, the informal and ethical quality to the practice of tukhta can be appreciated in a way that more formal social scientific epistemology and historical method would miss. Perhaps the most salient counter-conduct to be found in the experiences of Gulag’s orchestration of labour control, tukhta has the potential to reveal a great deal about audit regimes generically beyond the historical bounds of Soviet Russia. Historical inspiration for engaging audit regimes can therefore be derived from the ethico-political practice of tukhta, where otherwise there might just be pessimism, demoralization, and resigned acceptance to the awesome power of those regimes.
图赫塔:苏联古拉格审计制度中的劳动和抵抗
从苏联古拉格集中营幸存者的回忆录文学中,这篇文章探索了这个群岛上辛勤劳作的zeks所发明的奇怪的tukhta做法。在一个以积累盈余、消灭政治异议和转变被监禁者主体性为任务的劳动政权中,图赫塔被证明是一种抵抗古拉格作为审计政权的逻辑的战术手段。古拉格对数量的精细劳动控制要求受其技术影响的泽克人同样具有复杂的抵抗实践,而tukhta就是其中一种实践。当被视为一种实践时,tukhta实践的非正式和道德品质可以以一种更正式的社会科学认识论和历史方法可能会错过的方式得到理解。也许在古拉格劳动控制的经验中发现的最显著的反行为,tukhta有可能揭示大量关于超越苏联历史界限的审计制度。因此,参与审计制度的历史灵感可以从tukhta的伦理政治实践中获得,否则可能只有悲观主义,道德败坏和对这些政权的可怕权力的顺从。
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Labor History
Labor History Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Labor History is the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship on labor. It is thoroughly ecumenical in its approach and showcases the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, labor economists, political scientists, sociologists, social movement theorists, business scholars and all others who write about labor issues. Labor History is also committed to geographical and chronological breadth. It publishes work on labor in the US and all other areas of the world. It is concerned with questions of labor in every time period, from the eighteenth century to contemporary events. Labor History provides a forum for all labor scholars, thus helping to bind together a large but fragmented area of study. By embracing all disciplines, time frames and locales, Labor History is the flagship journal of the entire field. All research articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
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