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Transforming Labour: From the Workers’ State to the Post-Socialist Re-Organization of Industry and Workplace Communities: Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary)

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  • Bartha Eszter

    (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) of Budapest, Department of East European Studies, Sopron, 9400, Hátsókapu u. 3, Hungary)

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The article seeks to place the workers’ road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary in a historical context. It offers an overview of the most important elements of the party’s policy towards labour in the two countries under the Honecker and the Kádár regime respectively. It examines the highly paternalistic role of the factory as a life-long employer and provider of workers’ needs for the large industrial working class which the regime considered to be its main social basis. Given that the thesis of the working class as the ruling class was central to the legitimating ideology of the state socialist regimes, dissident intellectuals challenging this thesis were effectively marginalized or forced into exile.

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  • Bartha Eszter, 2017. "Transforming Labour: From the Workers’ State to the Post-Socialist Re-Organization of Industry and Workplace Communities: Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary)," Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter, vol. 58(2), pages 413-438, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:jbwige:v:58:y:2017:i:2:p:413-438:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2017-0015
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    Keywords

    workers; East Germany; Hungary; enterprise transformation; life-histories; memory of socialism;
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    JEL classification:

    • A - General Economics and Teaching
    • J - Labor and Demographic Economics
    • J - Labor and Demographic Economics
    • N - Economic History
    • O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth

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