Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989 : : Contributions to a History of Work /

Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989 : : Contributions to a History of Work / / ed. by Marsha Siefert.

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Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting, and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about la...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Alamgir, Alena K.,
Archer, Rory,
Bartha, Eszter,
Bonfiglioli, Chiara,
Brunnbauer, Ulf,
Cucu, Alina-Sandra,
Glont, Anca,
Grama, Adrian,
Heumos, Peter,
Jarska, Natalia,
Lindenberger, Thomas,
Mazurek, Małgorzata,
Miljković, Marko,
Musić, Goran,
Nonaj, Visar,
Rutar, Sabine,
Schult, Ulrike,
Siefert, Marsha,
Zimmermann, Susan,
HerausgeberIn:
Siefert, Marsha,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Work and Labor – Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (484 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Labor in State-Socialist Europe since 1945: Toward an Inclusive History of Work
  • PART I: FINDING WORK, MAKING WORKERS
  • Unemployment in State Socialism: An Insight into the Understanding of Work in 1950s Poland
  • The Impossibility of Being Planned: Slackers and Stakhanovites in Early Socialist Romania
  • Finding Workers to Build Socialism: Recruiting for the Steel Factories in Bulgaria and Albania
  • “Inappropriate Behavior”: Labor Control and the Polish, Cuban, and Vietnamese Workers in Czechoslovakia
  • PART II WORKERS, RIGHTS, AND DISCIPLINE
  • Dishonest Saleswomen: On Gendered Politics of Shame and Blame in Polish State-Socialist Trade
  • Labor Discipline in Self-Managed Socialism: The Yugoslav Automotive Industry, 1965–1985
  • “This Workers’ Hostel Lost Almost Every Bit of Added Value It Had”: Workers’ Hostels, Social Rights, and Legitimization in Hungary and the German Democratic Republic
  • Discussing Women’s Double and Triple Burden in Socialist Yugoslavia: Women Working in the Garment Industry
  • PART III: WORKERS, SAFETY, AND RISK
  • Governing the State of Emergency: Large Industrial Accidents in Communist East Germany
  • Labor’s Risks: Work Accidents, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Insurance in Socialist Romania
  • Nuclear Yutopia: The Outcome of the First Nuclear Accident in Yugoslavia, 1958
  • PART IV: WORKERS, PROTEST, AND REFORM
  • Strikes in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1968: Systems Analysis and the Debate over the Causes of the Collapse of State Socialism
  • “It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, but a Lived Reality”: Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s
  • Labor Protest in the Italian-Yugoslav Border Region During the Cold War: Action, Control, Legitimacy, Self- Management
  • When Workers’ Self-Management Met Neoliberalism: Positive Perceptions of Market Reforms among Blue-Collar Workers in Late Yugoslav Socialism
  • PART V: TOWARD AN INCLUSIVE HISTORY OF WORK
  • Not Just Socialist Miners, but Miners of the World: Internationalism, Global Trends, and Romanian Coal Workers
  • List of Contributors
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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