Eszter Bartha

Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the effect that the Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany had on working class political consciousness Well researched with a thorough use of archival research Uses case studies to illuminate the relationship between the workersâ state and the industrial working class

Produktdetails

• International Studies in Social History
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781805391241
• ISBN-10: 1805391240
• Artikelnr.: 68068934

Autorenporträt

Eszter Bartha is a habilitated Assistant Professor in the Department of Eastern European History at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She received a PhD in History from the Central European University in Budapest in 2007 and another in Sociology from Eötvös Loránd University in 2012. Her current work examines the relationship between the party and the working class in the declining phase of Communism.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Welfare dictatorships, the working class and socialist
ideology: A theoretical and methodological outline
Chapter 1. 1968 and the Working Class
Chapter 2. Workers in the Welfare Dictatorships
Chapter 3. Workers and the Party
Chapter 4. Contrasting the Memory of the Kádár and Honecker Regimes
Conclusion: Squaring the Circle? The End of the Welfare Dictatorships in
the GDR and Hungary
Appendix: Tables 
References