02590nam 22004813a 450 99658806430331620231108184543.01-80073-759-9https://doi.org/10.3167/9781782380252(CKB)5720000000220726(ScCtBLL)8af52fc8-b8fa-49fa-8a5b-0ccef1661a9e(DE-B1597)666523(DE-B1597)9781800737594(EXLCZ)99572000000022072620231108i20132023 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlienating Labour : Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary /Eszter BarthaNew York :Berghahn Books,2013.1 online resource (373 p.)International Studies in Social HistoryThe 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 in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers' state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.International Studies in Social HistoryHistory / Modern / 20th CenturybisacshPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & SocialismbisacshBusiness & Economics / Economic HistorybisacshEconomicsHistory / Modern / 20th CenturyPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & SocialismBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryEconomics331.0943/109049Bartha Eszter1092475Knowledge Unlatchedfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK996588064303316Alienating labour2611155UNISA