Planning labour : time and the foundations of industrial socialism in Romania / Alina-Sandra Cucu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cucu, Alina-Sandra, author.

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 32.

International studies in social history ; volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Romania--Cluj-Napoca--History--20th century.

Socialism.

Government ownership--Romania--Cluj-Napoca--History--20th century.

Government ownership.

Central planning--Romania--History--20th century.

Central planning.

Working class.

History.

Romania--Economic policy--1945-1989.

Romania.

Economic policy.

Working class--Romania--Cluj-Napoca--History--20th century.

Cluj-Napoca (Romania)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Cluj-Napoca (Romania).

Cluj-Napoca (Romania)--Social conditions--20th century.

Economic history.

Social conditions.

Romania--Cluj-Napoca.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Planning labor

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Summary:

"Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of 'primitive socialist accumulation' whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus and restricted workers' consumption in support of industrial growth. Focusing on the daily operations of planning in the ethnically mixed city of Cluj from 1945 to 1955, this book argues that socialist accumulation was deeply contradictory: it not only inherited some of the classical tensions of capital accumulation, but also generated its own, which derived from the multivocal nature of the state socialist worker as a creator of value, as living labour, and as a subject of emancipatory politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Don Kalb

Socialist primitive accumulation in Cluj

Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948

"More precious than gold" : labour instability and the stickyness of everyday life

"Workers," "proletarians," and the struggle for cheap labour

Time and accumulation on the shopfloor

"Hidden reserves of productivity" and the quest for knowledge

Productive flows and factory discipline

Planned heroism and nonsynchronicity on the shopfloor

Epilogue: Really existing socialism as nonsynchronicity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cucu, Alina-Sandra, author. Planning labour

ISBN:

9781789201857

1789201853

OCLC:

1053984247