Kisőrsi, Zsófia will work on the social history of commuter workers (ingázók), who represented an important group of paid laborers in the Hungarian model of socialism. They worked in factories in towns and cities but lived in neighboring villages, where they were also active in agriculture (cf. Ladányi, Leonard). Her research will focus on how the commuters bridged two types of work and shifted between two types of workplace, especially in light industry plants in Western Hungary (Szombathely and Zalaegerszeg: for example, the Savaria Shoe Factory, the REMIX Radio Engineering Company, and the Cotton Company of Szombathely). She will be particularly interested in how the move back and forth between a collective, centralized workplace and a more privately organized one shaped the attitudes of commuters to work and their patterns of behavior in terms of deference and autonomy. She will also consider the effects of gender roles (esp. women workers) on the definitions and overlappings of paid and household work.
Keywords: commuter workers, workers of peasant origin, social position of workers, worker identities, oral history