ISBN:
9781782380252
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
International studies in social history volume 22
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bartha, Eszter Alienating labour
DDC:
331.0943/109049
Keywords:
Labor History
;
Labor History
;
Labor unions and communism History
;
Post-communism
;
Capitalism
;
Economics
;
Economic history
;
Marxism & Communism
;
General & world history
;
Travail - Allemagne (Est) - Histoire
;
Travail - Hongrie - Histoire
;
Syndicats et communisme - Europe de l'Est - Histoire
;
Postcommunisme - Europe de l'Est
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Labor
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Labor & Industrial Relations
;
HISTORY - Modern - 20th Century
;
Capitalism
;
Labor
;
Labor unions and communism
;
Post-communism
;
Postkommunism
;
Arbetarklassen
;
Kommunism
;
History
;
Économie politique
;
economics
;
Eastern Europe
;
Germany (East)
;
Hungary
Abstract:
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 in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes
Note:
English
