1.
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik in Rumänien [Economic and Social Policy in Romania] Book Chapter
In: Backes, Uwe; Heydemann, Günther; Vollnhals, Clemens (Ed.): Staatssozialismen im Vergleich: Staatspartei – Sozialpolitik – Opposition, pp. 327-346, 2019.
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2.
Ruoss, Matthias
Die neuen Freiwilligen. Gemeinnützigkeit in der Schweiz, 1970-1990 Journal Article
In: Historische Zeitschrift, iss. Beihefte 76, pp. 153-168, 2019.
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3.
Lambrecht, Thijs; Winter, Anne
An Old Poor Law on the Continent? Agrarian Capitalism, Poor Taxes, and Village Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Flanders Journal Article
In: Economic History Review, vol. 71, iss. 4, pp. 1173-1198, 2018.
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4.
Viitaniemi, Ella
Hyödyn aikakauden talouspolitiikka, vuokraviljely ja tilattomuuden kasvu [Utilitarian economic policy, tenant farming and growth of landless people] Book Chapter
In: Miettinen, Riikka; Viitaniemi, Ella (Ed.): Reunamailla. Tilattomat Länsi-Suomen maaseudulla 1600–1800 [On the Fringes. The Landless in Rural Western Finland 1600–1800], pp. 380–417, 2018.
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5.
Sundevall, Fia
Military Education for Non-Military Purposes: Economic and Social Governing Projects Targeting Conscripts in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden Journal Article
In: History of Education Review, vol. 46, iss. 1, pp. 58-71, 2017.
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6.
Weber, Klaus
Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism] Journal Article
In: Kritische Justiz, vol. 50, iss. 2, pp. 187-194, 2017.
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7.
Seppel, Marten
Cameralist population policy and the problem of serfdom, 1680-1720 Book Chapter
In: Seppel, Marten; Tribe, Keith (Ed.): Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe, pp. 91-110, 2017.
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8.
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Grigore Trancu-Iaşi şi “protecţia muncii naţionale”: Politica socială interbelică între naţionalism şi combaterea şomajului [Grigore Trancu-Iaşi and the “protection of national labor”: Interwar social policy between nationalism and the fight against unemployment] Journal Article
In: Transilvania , vol. 10-11, pp. 64-72, 2014.
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9.
Bartha, Eszter
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary. Book
2013.
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The state socialist regimes in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy – successful at the outset – in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.
10.
Ćeranić, Goran
Social exclusiveness and the character of competitiveness of the montenegrin social system Journal Article
In: Sociološka luča, vol. IV, iss. 2, pp. 21-37, 2010.
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11.
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Comitetul oamenilor muncii [Workers’ committe] Journal Article
In: Arhivele Totalitarismului, vol. 1-2, pp. 221-227, 2009.
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2019
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik in Rumänien [Economic and Social Policy in Romania] Book Chapter
In: Backes, Uwe; Heydemann, Günther; Vollnhals, Clemens (Ed.): Staatssozialismen im Vergleich: Staatspartei – Sozialpolitik – Opposition, pp. 327-346, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, economic and social policy, romania, socialism
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Ruoss, Matthias
Die neuen Freiwilligen. Gemeinnützigkeit in der Schweiz, 1970-1990 Journal Article
In: Historische Zeitschrift, iss. Beihefte 76, pp. 153-168, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, economic and social policy, feminism, switzerland, voluntarism
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2018
Lambrecht, Thijs; Winter, Anne
An Old Poor Law on the Continent? Agrarian Capitalism, Poor Taxes, and Village Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Flanders Journal Article
In: Economic History Review, vol. 71, iss. 4, pp. 1173-1198, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, flanders
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Viitaniemi, Ella
Hyödyn aikakauden talouspolitiikka, vuokraviljely ja tilattomuuden kasvu [Utilitarian economic policy, tenant farming and growth of landless people] Book Chapter
In: Miettinen, Riikka; Viitaniemi, Ella (Ed.): Reunamailla. Tilattomat Länsi-Suomen maaseudulla 1600–1800 [On the Fringes. The Landless in Rural Western Finland 1600–1800], pp. 380–417, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, economic development, finland
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2017
Sundevall, Fia
Military Education for Non-Military Purposes: Economic and Social Governing Projects Targeting Conscripts in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden Journal Article
In: History of Education Review, vol. 46, iss. 1, pp. 58-71, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, economic and social policy, education, military, scandinavia, social control, sweden
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Weber, Klaus
Die Gefängnisindustrie in den USA: Zur Verschränkung von Arbeits-, Wohlfahrts- und Strafregimen im Neoliberalismus [The prison industry in the USA: About the entanglement of regimes of work, welfare and punishment in neoliberalism] Journal Article
In: Kritische Justiz, vol. 50, iss. 2, pp. 187-194, 2017.
Tags: contemporary, convict labour, economic and social policy, neoliberalism, punishment, social control, united states
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Seppel, Marten
Cameralist population policy and the problem of serfdom, 1680-1720 Book Chapter
In: Seppel, Marten; Tribe, Keith (Ed.): Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe, pp. 91-110, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, early modern history, economic and social policy, serfdom
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The chapter argues that the demands to abolish serfdom in Central and Eastern Europe did not come up on the agenda only in the second half of the 18th century when the principles of enlightenment, liberalism and rationalism brought a new understanding of social order. The institution of serfdom became a problem for the absolutist states as early as the 1680s.
2014
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Grigore Trancu-Iaşi şi “protecţia muncii naţionale”: Politica socială interbelică între naţionalism şi combaterea şomajului [Grigore Trancu-Iaşi and the “protection of national labor”: Interwar social policy between nationalism and the fight against unemployment] Journal Article
In: Transilvania , vol. 10-11, pp. 64-72, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, economic and social policy, labour markets, romania
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abstract = {This paper analyzes the historical grounds of a national policy to regulate labour in interwar Romania. The labour regime in that period was not even once modified by social pressure. Official interest varied according to economic conditions, government ideology and the personality of the holder of the office. The founder was Grigore Trancu-Iaşi, a radical statesman. Of humble extraction, he imagined himself as a sort of protector of Romanian workers. His vision was “national”: employers and employees were in the service of the motherland. The end of the democratical regime in 1938 came with a different political approach toward the working class. The political elite, democratically elected or directly appointed by the King, employed philanthropy or offered incentives. However, solidarity never became a reality.
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This paper analyzes the historical grounds of a national policy to regulate labour in interwar Romania. The labour regime in that period was not even once modified by social pressure. Official interest varied according to economic conditions, government ideology and the personality of the holder of the office. The founder was Grigore Trancu-Iaşi, a radical statesman. Of humble extraction, he imagined himself as a sort of protector of Romanian workers. His vision was “national”: employers and employees were in the service of the motherland. The end of the democratical regime in 1938 came with a different political approach toward the working class. The political elite, democratically elected or directly appointed by the King, employed philanthropy or offered incentives. However, solidarity never became a reality.
2013
Bartha, Eszter
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary. Book
2013.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, capitalism, economic and social policy, german democratic republic, germany, hungary, post-socialism, socialism, working class
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abstract = {The state socialist regimes in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy – successful at the outset – in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.
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The state socialist regimes in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy – successful at the outset – in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.
2010
Ćeranić, Goran
Social exclusiveness and the character of competitiveness of the montenegrin social system Journal Article
In: Sociološka luča, vol. IV, iss. 2, pp. 21-37, 2010.
Abstract | Tags: contemporary, economic and social policy, montenegro, sociology
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issue = {2},
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abstract = {Social exclusiveness, as one of the main problems of modern society, entails a lack of social connections and power, disintegration, marginalization, social detachment and unfavorable position in the political, economic and social sense. Social exclusiveness concept can be operationalized by means of three elements: unemployment (marginalization at labor market), poverty and social isolation. Different integral elements of social exclusiveness are mutually interdependent, creating a spiral of insecurity which results in constant and multiply depriving circumstances. In those circumstances, the competitiveness of those individuals is not developed, nor are their abilities utilized, what to a great extent influences the competitiveness of the system itself.},
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Social exclusiveness, as one of the main problems of modern society, entails a lack of social connections and power, disintegration, marginalization, social detachment and unfavorable position in the political, economic and social sense. Social exclusiveness concept can be operationalized by means of three elements: unemployment (marginalization at labor market), poverty and social isolation. Different integral elements of social exclusiveness are mutually interdependent, creating a spiral of insecurity which results in constant and multiply depriving circumstances. In those circumstances, the competitiveness of those individuals is not developed, nor are their abilities utilized, what to a great extent influences the competitiveness of the system itself.
2009
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Comitetul oamenilor muncii [Workers’ committe] Journal Article
In: Arhivele Totalitarismului, vol. 1-2, pp. 221-227, 2009.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, economic and social policy, romania, socialism
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year = {2009},
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volume = {1-2},
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abstract = {This paper analyzes the workers’ committees as the main instrument of control over the whole social-economical activity in Communist Romania. As the representatives of the working masses, these gatherings of employees (industrial, agricultural and commercial workers, engineers, desk clerks, teachers etc.) shared the decision-power with hierarchical appointed managers and directors. After the 1969 political decision of accelerating Socialist Romania’s economic and social development, the workers’ committee shared also the responsibility in implementing the five-year plans. Although they lacked real power, the workers’ committee soon became another instrument of control over ordinary people, by disposing of the distribution over assets and services (houses, holidays, cars).
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This paper analyzes the workers’ committees as the main instrument of control over the whole social-economical activity in Communist Romania. As the representatives of the working masses, these gatherings of employees (industrial, agricultural and commercial workers, engineers, desk clerks, teachers etc.) shared the decision-power with hierarchical appointed managers and directors. After the 1969 political decision of accelerating Socialist Romania’s economic and social development, the workers’ committee shared also the responsibility in implementing the five-year plans. Although they lacked real power, the workers’ committee soon became another instrument of control over ordinary people, by disposing of the distribution over assets and services (houses, holidays, cars).