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

• Autore: Bartha Eszter
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.0943/109049
• Soggetto topico: Labor - Germany (East) - History; Labor - Hungary - History; Labor unions and communism - Europe, Eastern - History; Post-communism - Europe, Eastern; Capitalism - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Alienating labour
• ISBN: 1-78238-026-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452563203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in social history ; ; v. 22.