Mart Chmielewski, Annina Gagyiova, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz are organizing a panel entitled “From Home Economics to Cooperative Activism: Gender, Labor, and Expertise in State Socialist Poland and Hungary” on Friday, 10 April, from 12:45 to 2:15 pm.
The panel brings together three papers that examine the intersections of gender, labor, and expertise in state socialist Poland and Hungary. Mart Chmielewski’s contribution focuses on female experts and activists in the cooperative movement in Poland from the 1950s to the 1980s. Annina Gagyiova explores the role of home economics expertise in 1970s Poland and Hungary. Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz extends this perspective into the 1980s, analyzing home economics as a coping strategy during a decade marked by economic crisis in both countries.