The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research

Baker, Catherine

Abstract

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.

Citation

Baker, C. (2014). The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research. International Peacekeeping, 21(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2014.899123

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 21, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Apr 8, 2014
• Publication Date: 2014-01
• Deposit Date: Jun 19, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 23, 2017
• Journal: International peacekeeping (London, England)
• Print ISSN: 1353-3312
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 91-106
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2014.899123
• Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Economy, Employment, Former Yugoslavia, Peacebuilding, Precarity
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/473968
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13533312.2014.899123
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International peacekeeping on 08/04/2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13533312.2014.899123
• Contract Date: Nov 23, 2017