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Record Nr.

UNINA9910662362303321

Autore

Bartha Eszter

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-78238-026-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

International studies in social history ; ; vol. 22

Disciplina

331.0943/109049

Soggetti

Labor - Germany (East) - History

Labor - Hungary - History

Labor unions and communism - Europe, Eastern - History

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Capitalism - Europe, Eastern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; Introduction - Welfare Dictatorships, the Working Class and Socialist Ideology; Chapter 1 - 1968 and the Working Class; Chapter 2 - mWorkers in the Welfare Dictatorships; Chapter 3 - Workers and the Party; Chapter 4 - Contrasting the Memory of the Kádár and Honecker Regimes; Conclusion - Squaring the Circle?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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