ABSTRACT Since its privatization in 1995, Kazakhstan’s largest steel mill has been in a restructuring process characterized by workforce reduction, augmented pressure on remaining jobs and labour conflict over wages, work conditions and corporate social responsibility. In 2013, in an attempt to re-establish harmonious relationships with workers, management invited the mill’s former labour aristocracy to join a newly established veterans’ council, a forum resembling traditional aksakal councils, to discuss the company’s difficult situation. In the context of a banquet in honour of the veterans, tradition became the contested terrain over which labour and capital struggled to endorse their own visions of the industrial future. As corporate capitalist visions of efficiency and professionalism, ethno-national concerns for harmony and stability, and practices rooted in the Soviet labour legacy clash, tradition is staged by actors as a practice which can either affirm or challenge industrial leadership in a labour conflict.

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退伍军人盛会：在当代哈萨克斯坦工业劳工冲突中使用传统

摘要 自 1995 年私有化以来，哈萨克斯坦最大的钢铁厂一直处于重组过程中，其特点是劳动力减少、剩余工作压力加大以及工资、工作条件和企业社会责任方面的劳工冲突。2013 年，为了重新建立与工人的和谐关系，管理层邀请该工厂的前劳工贵族加入新成立的退伍军人委员会，该论坛类似于传统的 Aksakal 委员会，讨论公司的困境。在为退伍军人举行的宴会上，传统成为了劳动力和资本努力支持他们自己对工业未来的愿景的有争议的领域。作为效率和专业精神的企业资本主义愿景，民族国家对和谐与稳定的关注，