Privatizing Poland : : Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor / / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn.
The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like...
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Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Privatizing Poland : Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 map, 1 table, 1 halftone text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Culture and Society after Socialism Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Road to Capitalism -- 2. Accountability, Corruption, and the Privatization of Alima -- 3. Niche Marketing and the Production of Flexible Bodies -- 4. Quality Control, Discipline, and the Remaking of Persons -- 5. Ideas of Kin and Home on the Shop Floor -- 6. Power and Postsocialism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage.Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers' self-concepts; how changes in "personhood" relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe's integration into the world economy. Dunn investigates these topics through a study of workers and changing management techniques at the Alima-Gerber factory in Rzeszów, Poland, formerly a state-owned enterprise, which was privatized by the Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan.Alima-Gerber instituted rigid quality control, job evaluation, and training methods, and developed sophisticated distribution techniques. The core principle underlying these goals and strategies, the author finds, is the belief that in order to produce goods for a capitalist market, workers for a capitalist enterprise must also be produced. Working side-by-side with Alima-Gerber employees, Dunn saw firsthand how the new techniques attempted to change not only the organization of production, but also the workers' identities. Her seamless, engaging narrative shows how the employees resisted, redefined, and negotiated work processes for themselves. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Corporations, Foreign Poland. Industrial relations Poland. Power (Social sciences) Poland. Privatization Poland. Anthropology. General Economics. Labor History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 print 9780801442254 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501702204 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501702204 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501702204/original |
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