Privatizing Poland Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
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The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage.Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers' self-concepts; how changes in "personhood" relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe's integration into the world economy. Dunn investigates these topics through a study of workers and changing management techniques at the Alima-Gerber factory in Rzeszów, Poland, formerly a state-owned enterprise, which was privatized by the Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan.Alima-Gerber instituted rigid quality control, job evaluation, and training methods, and developed sophisticated distribution techniques. The core principle underlying these goals and strategies, the author finds, is the belief that in order to produce goods for a capitalist market, workers for a capitalist enterprise must also be produced. Working side-by-side with Alima-Gerber employees, Dunn saw firsthand how the new techniques attempted to change not only the organization of production, but also the workers' identities. Her seamless, engaging narrative shows how the employees resisted, redefined, and negotiated work processes for themselves.
כותר |
Privatizing Poland Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor / Elizabeth C. Dunn. |
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מהדורה |
1st ed. |
מוציא לאור |
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press |
שנה |
[2015] |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Privatizing Poland Contents Acknowledgments 1. The Road to Capitalism 2. Accountability, Corruption, and the Privatization of Alima 3. Niche Marketing and the Production of Flexible Bodies 4. Quality Control, Discipline, and the Remaking of Persons 5. Ideas of Kin and Home on the Shop Floor 6. Power and Postsocialism Notes Bibliography Index |
סדרה |
Culture & Society After Socialism |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (224 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2015 |
מספר מערכת |
997010719448805171 |
תצוגת MARC
תגיות
- Privatization
- Power (Social sciences)
- Industrial relations
- Corporations, Foreign
- Corporations, Foreign Poland.
- Power (Social sciences) Poland.
- Industrial relations Poland.
- Privatization Poland.
- Foreign corporations
- Juristic persons, Foreign
- Capital and labor
- Employee-employer relations
- Employer-employee relations
- Labor and capital
- Labor-management relations
- Labor relations
- Empowerment (Social sciences)
- Political power
- Denationalization
- Privatisation
- Poland
- 1939-1945 Poland (Territory under German occupation)
- A' Phòlainn
- An Pholainn
- Borandi
- Bu̇gėdė Naĭramdakha Polʹsho Ulas
- Būland
- Būlūniy
- Bupolska
- Bupoolo
- Commonwealth of Poland
- Congress Kingdom of Poland
- Congress Poland
- Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- General Government for Occupied Polish Territories
- Gweriniaeth Gwlad Pwyl
- Gwlad Pwyl
- IPoland
- IPolandi
- Kingdom of Poland
- Kongresówka
- Królestwo Kongresowe Polskie
- Królestwo Polskie
- Kunngiitsuuffik Poleni
- Lahistān
- Lehastan
- Lehastani Hanrapetutʻyun
- Lengyel Köztársaság
- Lengyelország
- Lenkija
- Lenkijos Respublika
- Lýðveldið Pólland
- P.N.R.
- P.R.L.
- Pho-lân
- Pho-lân Kiōng-hô-kok
- Pholainn
- Pholynn
- PNR
- Pô-làn
- Poalen
- Pobblaght ny Polynn
- Poblachd na Pòlainn
- Poblacht na Polainne
- Poin
- Polaki
- Polaland
- Poland General Government
- Poland Generalgouvernement
- Poland Generalne Gubernatorstwo
- Poland Heneralʹna hubernii͡
- Polandia
- Pōlani
- Pole
- Polen
- Poleni
- Polija
- Polijas Republika
- Polin
- Polisce Cynewise
- Polish Commonwealth
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Polish People's Republic
- Polish Republic
- Poljska
- Pólland
- Pollando
- P'olland
- Pologne
- Polóña
- Poloni
- Polonia
- Poloniako Errepublika
- Polonie
- Polonya
- Polonyah
- Polonye
- Poloonya
- Polòy
- Polşa
- Polşa Respublikası
- Polsca
- Polʹsha
- Polʹsha Mastor
- Polʹshæ
- Polʹshæĭy Respublikæ
- Polʹshcha
- Polsh
- Polʹshin Orn
- Polʹsho
- Polska
- Polská republika
- Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa
- Polʹskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika
- Polskas
- Polsko
- Pòlskô Repùblika
- Pol'šu
- Poola
- Poola Vabariik
- Poyln
- Ppolsŭkka
- PRL
- Pulandia
- Pulógna
- Puluña
- Puoleja
- Puolejis Republika
- Repubblica di Polonia
- Republic of Poland
- República de Polonia
- Republica de Polsca
- Republiek van Pole
- Republik Pole
- Republik Polen
- Republika Poljska
- Republika Polsha
- Republiḳat Polin
- Republikken Polen
- République de Pologne
- République populaire de Pologne
- Repúbrica de Poloña
- Rėspublika Polʹshcha
- Respubliko Pollando
- Ripablik kya Bupoolo
- Ripublik Pulandia
- Ripublika Puluña
- Rzeczpospolita Polska
- Tavakuairetã Polóña
- T͡Sarstvo Polʹskoe
- Warsaw (Duchy)
- Yn Pholynn
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