Collective Farms which Work?

This book analyses Hungarian collectivization from a sociological perspective.

Nigel Swain (Author)

9780521057592, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 January 2008

248 pages
21.5 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.357 kg

This book analyses Hungarian collectivization from a sociological perspective. Rather than consider Eastern European societies in the light of social stratification and social mobility surveys, it takes as its point of departure the commitment of Eastern European societies to industrialization within the constraints of a socialist economy and, by examining social change from the viewpoint of labour and those who control it, places the focus more strongly than has traditionally been the case on the production of social wealth, and the relations which circumscribe it, rather than on the ways in which wealth is distributed and consumed.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. 'Family Labour' and 'Socialist Wage Labour' in Hungary's Co-operative Agriculture: The Incorporation of Petty Commodity Production: 1. 'Family labour' in the achievement and consolidation of collectivised agriculture, 1946–68
2. 'Family labour' and 'socialist wage labour': from integration to symbiosis, 1968–77
Part II. Members and Managers: 3. The social composition of the agricultural producer co-operative labour force
4. Professional management on agricultural producer co-operatives: genesis and social characteristics
Part III. Managerial Control in Agriculture: 5. Co-operative management's autonomy
6. The exercise of managerial control in agriculture
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References and bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Employee-ownership & co-operatives [KJVW]