TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cucu,Alina-Sandra
AU  - Kalb,Don
TI  - Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania 
T2  - International Studies in Social History
SN  - 9781789201857
U1  - 331.109498/4 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Central planning
KW  - Romania
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Government ownership
KW  - Cluj-Napoca
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Working class
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Romania, Socialist Transformation, Socialist Industrialization, Socialist Accumulation, Cluj
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Foreword: What Was the Plan? And What Was It Meant to Do? --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; I Primitive Socialist Accumulation in Cluj --; Chapter 1 Productive State Apparatuses Taking Over the Factories, 1944–1948 --; Chapter 2 ‘More Precious Than Gold’ Labour Instability and the ‘Stickiness’ of Everyday Life --; Chapter 3 ‘Workers’, ‘Proletarians’ and the Struggle for Cheap Labour --; II Time and Accumulation on the Shop Floor --; Chapter 4 ‘Hidden Reserves of Productivity’ and the Quest for Knowledge --; Chapter 5 Productive Flows and Factory Discipline --; Chapter 6 Planned Heroism and Nonsynchronicity on the Shop Floor --; Epilogue: Really Existing Socialism as Nonsynchronicity --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201864?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789201864
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789201864/original
ER  -