1.
Bartha, Eszter
Transforming Labour: From the Workers’ State to the Post-Socialist Re-Organization of Industry and Workplace Communities: Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary) Journal Article
In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, vol. 58, iss. 2, pp. 413-438, 2017.
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year = {2017},
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The article shows that working-class resentment at the inequalities of neoliberal capitalism can be easily channeled into a right-wing, nationalistic discourse – especially in the absence of any other credible narrative. In Germany, the political left has a much more powerful public presence and media coverage than in Hungary; indeed, the terms that East German workers used for the description of the new, capitalist society might have been borrowed from the media. In Hungary, workers experienced a dramatic decline in the symbolic capital of the “working class” alongside the drop in material rewards, which was all the more painful in comparison to the income of the members of the new elite. They also complained about the loss of the old social networks and a sense of social isolation. All these factors provide a “hotbed” for the rise of (new) ethnic communities so long as there are no alternative means for the “re-conquest” of workers’ symbolic capital.
2017
Bartha, Eszter
Transforming Labour: From the Workers’ State to the Post-Socialist Re-Organization of Industry and Workplace Communities: Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary) Journal Article
In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, vol. 58, iss. 2, pp. 413-438, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: germany, hungary, neoliberalism, post-socialism, symbolic capital, working class
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year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte},
volume = {58},
issue = {2},
pages = {413-438},
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The article shows that working-class resentment at the inequalities of neoliberal capitalism can be easily channeled into a right-wing, nationalistic discourse – especially in the absence of any other credible narrative. In Germany, the political left has a much more powerful public presence and media coverage than in Hungary; indeed, the terms that East German workers used for the description of the new, capitalist society might have been borrowed from the media. In Hungary, workers experienced a dramatic decline in the symbolic capital of the “working class” alongside the drop in material rewards, which was all the more painful in comparison to the income of the members of the new elite. They also complained about the loss of the old social networks and a sense of social isolation. All these factors provide a “hotbed” for the rise of (new) ethnic communities so long as there are no alternative means for the “re-conquest” of workers’ symbolic capital.