Dimitra Kofti Current Project Dimitra Kofti Curriculum Vitae Current Project Since the 1990's, the privatisation of formerly state-owned businesses has played a key role in the transformation of Eastern European societies. A set of new research questions emerging from the economic transformation of postsocialist societies shall deal with modes in which new global managerial discourses and practices concerning labour are being applied and renegotiated in different socio-historical contexts and local labour communities, taking on a life of their own. In the industrial sector, new managerial politics aimed at the establishment of a market economy have triggered, inter alia, renegotiations of previous notions of labour and time. I intend to explore the formation of individual subjectivities and the changing power relations in the newly privatised context of Bulgarian industry, by looking at discourses and performances of time-management by workers and managers considering that power can be performed and reproduced through the dialectics of time and that the transformation of political economy may be coupled with relevant changes in the sphere of time-management at the production site and in everyday life. Choosing as my field site a recently privatised factory in Bulgaria, I propose to study the ways in which Bulgarian factory workers and managers perceive, narrate and experience complex transformations of work ethics and labour relations, in the broader context of public hegemonic discourses of the socialist and now postsocialist era. The ethnographic data is collected through participatory observation at the shop-floor, where I am currently working as an unskilled worker and through collection of interviews by workers and managers.