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Alienating labour : workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary /
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 clas...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Series: | International studies in social history ;
v. 22. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 362 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782380269 1782380264 1299935591 9781299935594 |