1. Ambiguous Transparency: Resume Fetishism in a Slovak Workshop.
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Larson, JonathanL.
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WORKSHOPS (Facilities) , *IDEOLOGY , *PERSONNEL management , *SOCIOLOGY of work , *HUMAN resources departments , *JOB resumes , *SOCIALISM - Abstract
This article considers how curricula vitae (C. V.s) reflect and contribute to the social and political conditions of their production. Working with observations of a 2001 workshop in Slovakia on how to write a new style of C. V. and with the related style of life chronicles from personnel files in socialist Czechoslovakia, I argue that this genre's social effects in different economic orders might arise from how authors couple or decouple the referent of a text to other actors in time and space. One ideology that I observed in the workshop encouraged shifts in notions of evidence. Such shifts, I argue, might be furthering the ideological work of creating new forms of personhood and inequality that underlie Slovakia's 'transition' to capitalism. Post-socialist C.V.s and socialist life chronicles appear to rise out of different graphic ideologies that govern how actors see themselves as social subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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