Labour - Communist Relations, 1920-1951
Author : Bill Moore
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political parties
ISBN : 9781870605502
Author : Bill Moore
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political parties
ISBN : 9781870605502
Author : Noreen Branson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political parties
ISBN : 9780714731483
Author : S. A. Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0191667528
The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution. It is 'global', too, in the sense that the essays seek to integrate history 'from above' and 'from below', to trace the complex mediations between state and society, and to explore the social and cultural as well as the political and economic realities that shaped the lives of citizens fated to live under communist rule. The essays reflect on the similarities and differences between communist states in order to situate them in their socio-political and cultural contexts and to capture their changing nature over time. Where appropriate, they also reflect on how the fortunes of international communism were shaped by the wider economic, political, and cultural forces of the capitalist world. The Handbook provides an informative introduction for those new to the field and a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship for those seeking to deepen their understanding.
Author : Marsha Siefert
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9633863384
Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting, and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global. The authors reconsider the history of state socialism by re-examining the policies and problems of communist regimes and recovering the voices of the workers who built them. The contributors look at work and workers in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They explore the often contentious relationship between politics and labor policy, dealing with diverse topics including workers’ safety and risks; labor rights and protests; working women’s politics and professions; migrant workers and social welfare; attempts to control workers’ behavior and stem unemployment; and cases of incomplete, compromised, or even abandoned processes of proletarianization. Workers are presented as active agents in resisting and supporting changes in labor policies, in choosing allegiances, and in defining the very nature of work.
Author : Noreen Branson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Communist Party of Great Britain. Historians' Group
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
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Author : Noreen Branson
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780714731476
Author : Richard Hyman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1975-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134915623X
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Communism
ISBN :
Author : David G. Blanchflower
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Employees
ISBN :
This paper contrasts International Social Science Programme (ISSP) surveys for Hungary, supplemented with related survey data for East Germany, Poland, and Slovenia, with ISSP data for Western countries, to examine the extent to which workers in traditionally communist societies differ in their attitudes toward work conditions, wage inequality, the role of unions and the role of the state in determining labor market outcomes. We find sufficiently marked differences in responses between Hungary and the other previously communist countries and in Western countries to suggest that communism left an identifiable common legacy in the labor area. The citizens of former communist countries evince a greater desire for egalitarianism, are less satisfied with their jobs, and are more supportive of state interventions in the job market and economy than Westerners. These differences suggest that the move to a market economy will be marked by considerable 'social schizophrenia' due to an attitudinal legacy of their communist past.