TY - BOOK
T1 - Labor in State Socialist Europe, 1945-1989
T2 - Contributions to a Global History of Work
A2 - Siefert, Marsha
N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - "Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of the Second World War to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global. The authors reconsider the history of state socialism by reexamining the policies and problems of communist regimes and recuperating the voices of the workers who built them. The contributors look at work and workers in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They explore the often contentious relationship between politics and labor policy, dealing with diverse topics including workers' safety and risks; labor rights, and protests; working women's politics and professions; migrant workers and social welfare; attempts to control workers' behavior and stem unemployment; and cases of incomplete, compromised or even abandoned processes of proletarianization. Workers are presented as active agents in resisting and supporting changes in labor policies, in choosing allegiances, and in defining the very nature of work"
AB - "Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of the Second World War to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global. The authors reconsider the history of state socialism by reexamining the policies and problems of communist regimes and recuperating the voices of the workers who built them. The contributors look at work and workers in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They explore the often contentious relationship between politics and labor policy, dealing with diverse topics including workers' safety and risks; labor rights, and protests; working women's politics and professions; migrant workers and social welfare; attempts to control workers' behavior and stem unemployment; and cases of incomplete, compromised or even abandoned processes of proletarianization. Workers are presented as active agents in resisting and supporting changes in labor policies, in choosing allegiances, and in defining the very nature of work"
KW - Travail
KW - Eastern Europe
KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW - Socialism
KW - Labor
KW - Central Europe
UR - https://ceupress.com/book/labor-state-socialist-europe-1945-1989
M3 - Book
SN - 9789633863374
SN - 9633863384
SN - 9633863376
SN - 9789633863381
T3 - Work and labor: transdisciplinary studies for the 21st century
BT - Labor in State Socialist Europe, 1945-1989
PB - Central European University Press
CY - New York, NY
ER -