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Alienating Labour
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Berghahn Books, 2013.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Business & Economics
Economic History
Political Science
Political Ideologies
Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
History
Modern
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFC Far-left political ideologies and movements
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
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- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-1-78238-025-2
1-78238-025-6 - ISBNs :
- 9781782380252 and 1782380256
- Database :
- OAPEN Library
- Notes :
- Knowledge Unlatched, , Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- edsoap.20.500.12657.63337
- Document Type :
- book
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3167/9781782380252