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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793448703321

Autore

Cucu Alina-Sandra

Titolo

Planning labour : time and the foundations of industrial socialism in Romania / / Alina-Sandra Cucu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019

ISBN

1-78920-186-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Collana

International studies in social history ; ; Volume 32

Disciplina

331.109498/4

Soggetti

Socialism - Romania - Cluj-Napoca - History - 20th century

Government ownership - Romania - Cluj-Napoca - History - 20th century

Central planning - Romania - History - 20th century

Working class - Romania - Cluj-Napoca - History - 20th century

Romania Economic policy 1945-1989

Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Economic conditions 20th century

Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Don Kalb -- Socialist primitive accumulation in Cluj -- Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948 -- "More precious than gold" : labour instability and the stickyness of everyday life -- "Workers," "proletarians," and the struggle for cheap labour -- Time and accumulation on the shopfloor -- "Hidden reserves of productivity" and the quest for knowledge -- Productive flows and factory discipline -- Planned heroism and nonsynchronicity on the shopfloor -- Epilogue: Really existing socialism as nonsynchronicity.

Sommario/riassunto

Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of “primitive socialist accumulation” whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus and restricted workers’ consumption in support of industrial growth. Focusing on the daily operations of planning in the ethnically mixed city of Cluj from 1945 to 1955, this book argues that socialist accumulation was deeply contradictory: it not



only inherited some of the classical tensions of capital accumulation, but also generated its own, which derived from the multivocal nature of the state socialist worker as a creator of value, as living labour, and as a subject of emancipatory politics.