Alienating Labour : : Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary / / Eszter Bartha.

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 politica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:International Studies in Social History ; 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (372 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgement
  • Introduction. Welfare Dictatorships, the Working Class and Socialist Ideology: A Theoretical and Methodological Outline
  • Chapter 1 1968 and the Working Class ‘What do we get out of Socialism?’ The Reform of Enterprise Management in East Germany and Hungary
  • Chapter 2 Workers 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? The End of the Welfare Dictatorships in the GDR and Hungary
  • References
  • Index