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

• Autore: Cucu Alina-Sandra
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 331.109498/4
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Romania Economic policy 1945-1989; Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Economic conditions 20th century; Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Social conditions 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Romania, Socialist Transformation, Socialist Industrialization, Socialist Accumulation, Cluj
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Planning labour
• ISBN: 1-78920-186-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822556603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in social history ; ; Volume 32.