Alienating labor : workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary (1968-1989)

Bartha, Aniko Eszter

This dissertation seeks to explore the social roots of the decline of the socialist regimes through two factory case studies in East Germany and Hungary (Carl Zeiss Jena and Rába MVG in Győr) from the late 1960s until 1989. It argues that the period of economic reform opened up space for re-negotiat