Radiant Past Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism

Name: Radiant Past Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780226080420

ISBN-10: 0226080420

ISBN-13: 9780226080420

Edition: 1994

Authors: Michael Burawoy, Janos Lukacs

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Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say about the legacy of communism as an organizational system? Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs consider this question from the standpoint of the Hungarian working class. Between 1983 and 1990 the authors carried out intensive studies in two core Hungarian industries, machine building and steel production, to produce the first extended participant-observation study of work and politics in state socialism. "A fascinating and engagingly written eyewitness report on proletarian life in the waning years of goulash communism. . . . A richly rewarding book, one…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Sociological Diary



Ideology Versus Reality: Baacute;nki



Piece Rates, Hungarian Style



Mythologies of Industrial Work



Ideology as Reality: The Lenin Steel Works



Production in a Shortage Economy



Painting SocialismConclusion



The Radiant Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index