From Kolkhoz to Holding Company

A Hungarian Agricultural Producer Co-operative in Transition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4301276
AutoresNigel Swain (0000-0002-2467-5796)
Ano2000
Volume13
Fascículo2
Páginas142-171
Data de publicação2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-6443.00111
OpenAlexW1983043458
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

This paper uses a case study, the Noble Grape co-operative (a pseudonym), to illustrate the roles of social and cultural capital in both the creation of a successful agricultural producer co-operative (collective farm) in socialist Hungary and its transformation into a successful private company after 1989. It identifies both continuities in personnel, from socialist technocrat to capitalist manager, and continuities in the financial establishment with which it deals. The social origins of the key players in the transformation are compared with the existing sociological literature on changing elites in Eastern Europe, and the fate of the ordinary members who appear to be the losers in the process

Agriculture · Business · Capital (architecture · Common ownership · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Pseudonym · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Technocracy · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law