"Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of 'primitive socialist accumulation' whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus and restricted workers' consumption in support of industrial growth. Focusing on the daily operations of planning in the ethnically mixed city of Cluj from 1945 to 1955, this book argues that socialist accumulation was deeply contradictory: it not only inherited some of the classical…mehr
"Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of 'primitive socialist accumulation' whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus and restricted workers' consumption in support of industrial growth. Focusing on the daily operations of planning in the ethnically mixed city of Cluj from 1945 to 1955, this book argues that socialist accumulation was deeply contradictory: it not only inherited some of the classical tensions of capital accumulation, but also generated its own, which derived from the multivocal nature of the state socialist worker as a creator of value, as living labour, and as a subject of emancipatory politics"--
Alina-Sandra Cucu holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, Budapest. She has been a junior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a visiting scholar at the International Research Centre 'Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History' (re: work) at Humboldt University. She is currently working on a second book project that investigates the incorporation of the Romanian car industry into global commodity chains since the mid-1960s.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Don Kalb List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: SOCIALIST PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION IN CLUJ Chapter 1. Productive State Apparatuses: Taking Over the Factories, 1944-1948 Chapter 2. "More Precious Than Gold": Labour Instability and the Stickyness of Everyday Life Chapter 3. "Workers", "Proletarians", and the Struggle for Cheap Labour PART II: TIME AND ACCUMULATION ON THE SHOPFLOOR Chapter 4. "Hidden Reserves of Productivity" and the Quest for Knowledge Chapter 5. Productive Flows and Factory Discipline Chapter 6. Planned Heroism and Nonsynchronicity on the Shopfloor Epilogue: Really Existing Socialism as Nonsynchronicity References Index
Foreword Don Kalb List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: SOCIALIST PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION IN CLUJ Chapter 1. Productive State Apparatuses: Taking Over the Factories, 1944-1948 Chapter 2. "More Precious Than Gold": Labour Instability and the Stickyness of Everyday Life Chapter 3. "Workers", "Proletarians", and the Struggle for Cheap Labour PART II: TIME AND ACCUMULATION ON THE SHOPFLOOR Chapter 4. "Hidden Reserves of Productivity" and the Quest for Knowledge Chapter 5. Productive Flows and Factory Discipline Chapter 6. Planned Heroism and Nonsynchronicity on the Shopfloor Epilogue: Really Existing Socialism as Nonsynchronicity References Index
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