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Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2 - From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957–1972 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 2 - From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957–1972 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Palgrave Debates in Business History
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This book aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and
individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary),
within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture,
infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the
initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry through later
reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the
provision of abundant consumer goods. It provides hundreds
of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors
and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to
obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further, it offers an
otherwise-unobtainable close encounter with another world, familiar
in some respects while amazingly peculiar in others.The social
history of enterprise and work in postwar Central European nations
“building socialism” has long been underdeveloped. Through
extensive macro-level research on planning and policy in Hungary,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Bloc countries, a grand narrative
has been framed: reconstruction and breakneck
industrialization under Soviet tutelage; then eventual
mismanagement, stagnation and crisis, leading to collapse. This
book seeks to explore what socialism actually looked like to those
sustaining (or enduring} it as they faced forward into an
unknowable future, to assess how and where it did (or didn’t)
work, and to recount how ordinary people responded to its
opportunities and constraints. This study will appeal to readers
interested in a understanding how businesses worked day-to-day in a
planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological
strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how novice
managers and technicians emerged during rapid industrialization,
how peasants learned to farm cooperatively, how organizations
improvised and adapted, how political purity and practical
expertise contended for control, and how the controversies and
convulsions of the postwar decades shaped a deeply flawed project
to “build socialism.”
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Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
Palgrave Debates in Business History |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Firstpublished: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Philip Scranton
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Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
402 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-123931-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
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LSN: |
3-03-123931-8 |
Barcode: |
9783031239311 |
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