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The Accidental Proletariat : Workers, Politics, and Crisis in Gorbachev's Russia.
Walter Connor shows how the seven decades since Stalin launched the First Five Year plan have changed Soviet workers from a disorganized mass of unskilled ex-peasants into something very much like a class--not the working class intended by Lenin and Stalin but a new and powerful ""accident...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables ; Preface ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction; Workers, the State, and Perestroika ; Workers and the Problem of Class; The Limits of Class Analysis; The Plan of This Book; 1. Workers and Society: From Tsarism to Socialism; ""Prehistory"": Workers under the Tsar; Disruption and Rebuilding: Civil War and NEP; Stalin's Social Revolution; Workers: From Class to Mass; 2. A New Working Class? Hereditization and Education under Krushchev and Brezhnev; War and Aftermath; From Stalin to Khrushchev; The 1960s to the 1980s; Education: The Rising Curve.
- Work, Education, Policy: The Khrushchev ReformTo School Again: Brezhnev and Beyond; Economy and Social Structure; Toward the Possibilities of Class; 3. Forming Workers: Choice, Selection, and Tracking; Choice and Drift; Jobs and Takers; The Vocational Track; The 1984 School Reform; ""Selling"" the Reform; The End of Reform; Education, Training, and Class; 4. Work, Wages, and Welfare; The Working Class and Relative Rewards; One Class or Many? Blue-Collar Differentiation; Wages and Welfare: Appearance and Reality; Workers' Life; and How Workers View It; Gorbachev's Perestroika: Effort and Merit.
- Class and Economic Reward5. Labor, Authority, Autonomy; Stalinism and After; Work: Content and Discontent; The Workplace: Authority and Labor; Negative Control: Rank-and-File Resources; The Brigade Method: Autonomy or Control?; Pressures, Safety Valves, and the Second Economy; Perestroika, the Plant, and the Worker; Class, Work, and Authority; 6. Regime Control and Worker Opposition; Politics: The Party at the Plant; Unions: Workers' Interests, Workers' Rights; From Negative Control to Collective Protest; Organizing Worker Opposition: The Free Trade Unions
- Enter Gorbachev.
- Militancy and Class7. Worker Politics and Economic Crisis; Subsidies, Prices, Poverty; Entitlement and Entrepreneurship; Populism and Social Justice; 1989: Winter of Discontent; and Hot Summer; The Collapse of Local Apparats; Claims and Demands; Worker Power; The Unions: ""Activism"" Reasserted; ""Proletarian"" Conservatism; Epilogue; Notes; Index.