Piecework and the Sovietization of the East German Workplace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9643063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayne Geerling (0000-0002-8312-2147, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author), Gary B Magee, Gary Β Magee (0000-0002-2793-8790, Monash University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 717-743 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938912000660 |
| OpenAlex | W1965095688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the significance of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and all that it purported to stand for has been largely cast aside. Other than as a cautionary tale, the GDR has been widely seen as offering little to contemporary political discourse. By contrast, in recent years, its experience, especially in its early formative period, has attracted a lot of attention from historians. In part this burst of activity can be attributed to the opening of closed archives in eastern Europe, but it is also related to the desire to understand better how a flawed system could maintain such seeming stability for so long, and then, how all that could collapse so suddenly and ignobly in 1989. Was its demise inevitable, rooted, as it were, in the DNA of the system, or were there alternative paths that could have been taken? Much of the recent research is founded on the premise that insights and answers to such questions can be uncovered by going back to the origins of the system. This article is written in the same vein. Its aim is to shed light on how aspects of the East German workplace evolved in the period between the beginnings of Soviet occupation and the establishment of a Soviet-style planned economy by 1949–50
Aesthetics · Art · Aside · Berlin wall · Demise · Democracy · Eastern Bloc · Economic history · Epistemology · Fall of man · Formative assessment · German · Literature · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Sociology · Soviet union · Style (visual arts · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy
The Socialist System
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic
Fashioning Socialism
The Making of the GDR
Soviet norm determination in theory and practice, 1917–1941
Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic
The Structure of Soviet Wages. A Study in Socialist Economics
The Consumer Supply Lobby — Did it Exist? State and Consumption in East Germany in the 1950s
Chipping Away at the State
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |