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Author Bartha, Eszter, author.

Title Alienating labour : workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary / Eszter Bartha.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 362 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series International studies in social history ; volume 22
International studies in social history ; v. 22.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába.
Contents Introduction : Welfare dictatorships, the working class and socialist ideology : a theoretical and methodological outline -- 1968 and the working class : "What do we get out of socialism?" the reform of enterprise management in East Germany and Hungary -- Workers in the welfare dictatorships -- Workers and the party -- Contrasting the memory of the Kádár and Honecker regimes -- Conclusion : Squaring the circle? the end of the welfare dictatorships in the GDR and Hungary.
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Subject Labor -- Germany (East) -- History.
Labor.
Germany (East)
History.
Labor -- Hungary -- History.
Hungary.
Labor unions and communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
Labor unions and communism.
Eastern Europe.
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism.
Capitalism -- Europe, Eastern.
Capitalism.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bartha, Eszter. Alienating labour 9781782380252 (DLC) 2013006042 (OCoLC)828724058
ISBN 9781782380269 (electronic book)
1782380264 (electronic book)
1299935591 (electronic book)
9781299935594 (electronic book)
9781782380252
1782380256
Standard No. ebc1375252

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