A worker in a worker's state : piece-rates in Hungary
by Miklos Haraszti
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"The manuscript of 'A Worker in a Worker's State' was seized in Budapest, and its young Marxist author, a promising Hungarian poet, was brought to trial for writing it. The People's Court found that the manuscript was 'liable to provoke hatred of the state'. Haraszti himself was fined and given a suspended sentence for 'grave incitement'. This book is a literary event as well as a pioneering report on industrial conditions in a typical East European factory. The different voices of personal show more experience, objective analysis and reported speech are woven together to create a convincing, gripping account ..."--Back cover. show lessTags
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- Canonical title*
- Stücklohn
- Original title
- Darraber
- Original publication date
- 1975
- Important places
- Hungary
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Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Economics, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 331.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Labor economics Conditions of employment
- LCC
- HD4928 .P5 .H37 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class Wages
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
