Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor

by Elizabeth C. Dunn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801489296
• ISBN13: 9780801489297
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

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One of the best books on the chaos, stress, and culture shock of post-socialist transformation on the market. The research is fascinating, the writing is great, and the whole premise is really cool. Buy this book!