03155nam 2200697 450 991066236230332120231031200018.01-78238-026-410.1515/9781782380269(CKB)2550000001122701(EBL)1375252(OCoLC)859386834(SSID)ssj0001003132(PQKBManifestationID)11636196(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001003132(PQKBWorkID)11036964(PQKB)11616868(MiAaPQ)EBC1375252(Au-PeEL)EBL1375252(CaPaEBR)ebr10773528(CaONFJC)MIL524810(OCoLC)868068174(DE-B1597)637189(DE-B1597)9781782380269(EXLCZ)99255000000112270120130221d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAlienating labour workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary /Eszter BarthaNew York :Berghahn Books,2013.1 online resource (372 p.)International studies in social history ;vol. 22Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-025-6 1-299-93559-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThe 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 RábaInternational studies in social history ;v. 22.LaborGermany (East)HistoryLaborHungaryHistoryLabor unions and communismEurope, EasternHistoryPost-communismEurope, EasternCapitalismEurope, EasternLaborHistory.LaborHistory.Labor unions and communismHistory.Post-communismCapitalism331.0943/109049Bartha Eszter1092475MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910662362303321Alienating labour2611155UNINA