LEADER 03087cam a2200385 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20231009163101.0 008 950228s1995 iluab b 001 0 eng 010 95011554 020 0226468291 (cloth : acidfree paper) 020 0226468305 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 e-hu--- 050 00 HD1536.H9 |bL36 1995 082 00 331.7/63/09439 |220 100 1 Lampland, Martha, |d1952- 245 14 The object of labor : |bcommodification in socialist Hungary/ |cMartha Lampland. 260 Chicago : |bUniversity of Chicago Press, |c1995. 300 xv, 394 p. : |bill., maps ; |c25 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-383) and index (p. 385-394). 505 1. Introduction -- 2. Struggling for possession -- 3. Severing ties -- 4. Reforming notions -- 5. Planning as science, planning as art -- 6. The space to work -- 7. Conclusion. 520 Did socialist policies leave the economies of Eastern Europe unprepared for current privatization efforts? Under communist rule, were rural villages truly left untouched by capitalism? In this historical ethnography of rural Hungary, Martha Lampland argues not only that the transition to capitalism was well under way by the 1930s, but that socialist policies themselves played a crucial role in the development of capitalism by transforming conceptions of time, money, and labor. Exploring the effects of social change thrust upon communities against their will, Lampland examines the history of agrarian labor in Hungary from World War I to the early 1980s. She shows that rural workers had long been subject to strict state policies similar to those imposed by collectivization. Since the values of privatization and individualism associated with capitalism characterized rural Hungarian life both prior to and throughout the socialist period, capitalist ideologies of work and morality survived unscathed in the private economic practices of rural society. Lampland also shows how labor practices under socialism prepared the workforce for capitalism. By drawing villagers into factories and collective farms, for example, the socialist state forced farmers to work within tightly controlled time limits and to calculate their efforts in monetary terms. Indeed, this control and commodification of rural labor under socialism was essential to the transformation to capitalism. 650 0 Agricultural laborers |zHungary. 650 0 Farmers |zHungary. 650 0 Work ethic |zHungary. 650 0 Collectivization of agriculture |zHungary. 651 0 Hungary |xRural conditions. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6331_700000000000000_63_09439_LAM |70 |8GEN |9163213OSA |bOSA |d2023-10-03 |eOSA |o331.7/63/09439 LAM |r2023-10-03 |w2023-10-03 |yBK |zDonation of István Rév. |cOSA Repository 920 01 KXMBN9Y7 992 01 331_700000000000000_63_09439_LAM |bWWY_SZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_TW_ZQVWQ_EPD 966 |cIn the Research Room