
Laboring Along
Industrial Workers and the Making of Postwar Romania
Adrian Grama(Author)
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 2018
Book
Hardback
IX, 281 pages
978-3-11-060233-3 (ISBN)
Description
Products of war rather than revolution, the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe emerged in a global conjuncture defined by the aftermath of the Second World War. How did these regimes manage to overcome the domestic impact of the war and build socialism at the same time? This book shows how a commitment to productivity structured the transition from the period of postwar reconstruction to the take-off of industrial development during the late 1950s. Conceived as (1) pacification of labor relations, (2) the recovery of managerial authority, (3) monetarization of everyday life, (4) rationalization and (5) austerity, the politics of productivity provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for grasping together the end of the postwar period and the building of state socialism in Eastern Europe. By revealing how the social consequences of the Second World War were absorbed in the transition to authoritarian state socialism in the age of the rolling steel mill, this book carries implications for the way in which we may think about the aftermath of wars, reconstruction and development during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/München/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
14 Abbildungen
14 ill.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-060233-3 (9783110602333)
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