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020 _a9781501702204
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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501702204
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501702204
035 _a(DE-B1597)515868
035 _a(OCoLC)1121057954
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aHD4215
072 7 _aSOC002010
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a338.9438/05
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDunn, Elizabeth Cullen
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPrivatizing Poland :
_bBaby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor /
_cElizabeth Cullen Dunn.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.) :
_b1 map, 1 table, 1 halftone
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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_2rda
490 0 _aCulture and Society after Socialism
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. The Road to Capitalism --
_t2. Accountability, Corruption, and the Privatization of Alima --
_t3. Niche Marketing and the Production of Flexible Bodies --
_t4. Quality Control, Discipline, and the Remaking of Persons --
_t5. Ideas of Kin and Home on the Shop Floor --
_t6. Power and Postsocialism --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aThe transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage.Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers' self-concepts; how changes in "personhood" relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe's integration into the world economy. Dunn investigates these topics through a study of workers and changing management techniques at the Alima-Gerber factory in Rzeszów, Poland, formerly a state-owned enterprise, which was privatized by the Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan.Alima-Gerber instituted rigid quality control, job evaluation, and training methods, and developed sophisticated distribution techniques. The core principle underlying these goals and strategies, the author finds, is the belief that in order to produce goods for a capitalist market, workers for a capitalist enterprise must also be produced. Working side-by-side with Alima-Gerber employees, Dunn saw firsthand how the new techniques attempted to change not only the organization of production, but also the workers' identities. Her seamless, engaging narrative shows how the employees resisted, redefined, and negotiated work processes for themselves.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aCorporations, Foreign
_zPoland.
650 0 _aIndustrial relations
_zPoland.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
_zPoland.
650 0 _aPrivatization
_zPoland.
650 4 _aAnthropology.
650 4 _aGeneral Economics.
650 4 _aLabor History.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
_2bisacsh
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501702204
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501702204
856 4 2 _3Cover
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