Eszter Bartha

Alienating Labour (eBook, PDF)

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Gyor (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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782380269
• Artikelnr.: 40147629

Autorenporträt

Eszter Bartha is a habilitated Assistant Professor in the Department of Eastern European History at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She received a PhD in History from the Central European University in Budapest in 2007 and another in Sociology from Eötvös Loránd University in 2012. Her current work examines the relationship between the party and the working class in the declining phase of Communism.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Welfare dictatorships, the working class and socialist
ideology: A theoretical and methodological outline
Chapter 1. 1968 and the Working Class
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
Appendix: Tables 
References