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Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Cucu, Alina-Sandra

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Series: International Studies in Social History, Book 32

LaborEastern European HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1836953259
ISBN13: 9781836953258
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Oct 1 2025
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of primitive socialist accumulation whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus and restricted workers' consumption in support of industrial growth. Focusing on the daily operations of planning in the ethnically mixed city of Cluj from 1945 to 1955, this book argues that socialist accumulation was deeply contradictory: it not only inherited some of the classical tensions of capital accumulation, but also generated its own, which derived from the multivocal nature of the state socialist worker as a creator of value, as living labour, and as a subject of emancipatory politics.

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