Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989 : Contributions to a History of Work.

Cover -- front matter -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Labor in State-Socialist Europe since 1945: Toward an Inclusive History of Work -- PART I: FINDING WORK, MAKING WORKERS -- Unemployment in State Socialism: An Insight into the Understanding of Work in 1950s Poland -- The Impossibility of Being Planned: Slackers and Stakhanovites in Early Socialist Romania -- Finding Workers to Build Socialism: Recruiting for the Steel Factories in Bulgaria and Albania -- "Inappropriate Behavior": Labor Control and the Polish, Cuban, and Vietnamese Workers in Czechoslovakia -- PART II: WORKERS, RIGHTS, AND DISCIPLINE -- Dishonest Saleswomen: On Gendered Politics of Shame and Blame inPolish State-Socialist Trade -- Labor Discipline in Self-Managed Socialism: The Yugoslav Automotive Industry, 1965-1985 -- "This Workers' Hostel Lost Almost Every Bit of Added Value It Had": Workers' Hostels, Social Rights, and Legitimization in Hungary and the German Democratic Republic -- Discussing Women's Double and Triple Burden in Socialist Yugoslavia: Women Working in the Garment Industry -- PART III: WORKERS, SAFETY, AND RISK -- Governing the State of Emergency: Large Industrial Accidents in Communist East Germany -- Labor's Risks: Work Accidents, the Industrial Wage Relation and Social Insurance in Socialist Romania -- Nuclear Yutopia: The Outcome of the First Nuclear Accident in Yugoslavia, 1958 -- PART IV: WORKERS, PROTEST, AND REFORM -- Strikes in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1968: Systems Analysis, and the Debate over the Causes of the Collapse of State Socialism -- "It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, but a Lived Reality": Equal Pay, Women's Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s.

Labor Protest in the Italian-Yugoslav Border Region During the Cold War:Action, Control, Legitimacy, Self-Management -- When Workers' Self-Management Met Neoliberalism: Positive Perceptions of Market Reforms among Blue-Collar Workers in Late Yugoslav Socialism -- PART V: TOWARD AN INCLUSIVE HISTORY OF WORK -- Not Just Socialist Miners, but Miners of the World: Internationalism, Global Trends, and Romanian Coal Workers -- List of contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

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