Planning labour: time and the foundations of industrial socialism in Romania

In: International studies in social history Volume 32

Abstract

Foreword : what was the plan? And what was it meant to do? / Don Kalb -- I. Primitive socialist accumulation in Cluj -- 1. Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948 -- 2. 'More precious than gold' : labour instability and the 'stickiness' of everyday life -- 3. 'Workers', 'proletarians' and the struggle for cheap labour -- II. Time and accumulation on the shop floor -- 4. 'Hidden reserves of productivity' and the quest for knowledge --5. Productive flows and factory discipline -- 6. Planned heroism and nonsynchronicity on the shop floor -- Epilogue : really existing socialism as nonsynchronicity.