Combattenti solitari. Lavoratori tedeschi e ungheresi in epoca postcomunista
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6162562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eszter Bartha (0000-0003-3330-2825, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Issue | 88 |
| Pages | 37-56 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PASSATO E PRESENTE (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1120-0650 • E-ISSN: 1972-5493 |
| Publisher | Franco Angeli (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3280/pass2013-088003 |
| OpenAlex | W1920151733 |
| Language | IT |
| Citations received | 1 |
Introduces the results of a life-history interview project conducted with workers and former workers of two large ex-socialist model factories, Carl Zeiss in Jena (East Germany) and Rábe in Gyo ́ ́r (Hungary) between 2002 and 2004. The essay analyzes the post-socialist experience of the East German and Hungarian workers in three main dimensions: the experience of post-Fordist development in the factory; the subjective evaluation of the standard of living; interpersonal relations. Lastly, it examines examines the social and political attitudes of the workers in the mirror of their post-socialist experience. Hungarians had a more direct experience of peripheral development than the East Germans. While East Germany's greater success of integration into the capitalist world economy was accompanied by a change of mentality and the appearance of post-materialistic values, in Hungary nationalism seemed to be the only alternative to a capitalism, that disappointed and effectively impoverished many people. This explains the ambiguous evaluation of the socialist Kádár regime, in which the vision of greater social and material equality is confused with a longing for a strong state, order and an autocratic government
Autocracy · Capitalism · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Fordism · German · Materialism · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · State (computer science · History · Law · Philosophy · Urbanization and City Planning
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |