WORKPLACE RELATIONS IN A TRANSYLVANIAN CLOSED VILLAGE COMMUNITY. NOTES ON FIELDWORK
WORKPLACE RELATIONS IN A TRANSYLVANIAN CLOSED VILLAGE COMMUNITY. NOTES ON FIELDWORK

Summary/Abstract: This article shows how organizational studies could benefit from using theory and methodology from cultural anthropology. Based on field research in rural Romania’s emergent small-scale industrial sector in 2006, it explores the influence of ecological factors on labour relations and how the manipulation of ethnic stereotypes and traditional rural values managed to hide the asymmetrical relations between employers and employees, placing them in the realm of a “natural” order. Our findings were consistent with the anticipation that in a closed village community work relations are socially embedded and strong moral norms govern over the authority and obligations of the (male) “patron” towards subaltern workers.

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