Laboring Along : Industrial Workers and the Making of Postwar Romania / Adrian Grama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grama, Adrian, author.

Series:

Work in global and historical perspective ; Volume 4.

Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial Workers of the World.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Products of war rather than revolution, the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe emerged in a global conjuncture defined by the aftermath of the Second World War. How did these regimes manage to overcome the domestic impact of the war and build socialism at the same time? This book shows how a commitment to productivity structured the transition from the period of postwar reconstruction to the take-off of industrial development during the late 1950s. Conceived as (1) pacification of labor relations, (2) the recovery of managerial authority, (3) monetarization of everyday life, (4) rationalization and (5) austerity, the politics of productivity provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for grasping together the end of the postwar period and the building of state socialism in Eastern Europe. By revealing how the social consequences of the Second World War were absorbed in the transition to authoritarian state socialism in the age of the rolling steel mill, this book carries implications for the way in which we may think about the aftermath of wars, reconstruction and development during the second half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Tables and Pictures

Contents

Introduction

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a FA license: https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/free-access-policy https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

9783110602777

3110602776

9783110605167

3110605163

OCLC:

1076447921