TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartha,Eszter
TI  - Alienating labour: workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary 
T2  - International studies in social history
SN  - 9781782380269
AV  - HD8380 .A454 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Labor
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - History
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Labor unions and communism
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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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