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In the Shadow of Formal Rules

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  • Maria Lado
  • Ferenc Toth

    (Institute of Labour Research, Budapest)

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We had better to examine the real practice and its results instead of beautiful words. (C.W. Mills, 1959, The Sociological Imagination) This paper examines the labour process in a Hungarian telecommunications workshop which, at first glance, seems to be organized according to post-assembly line principles. Yet closer examination shows that the 'flexible workers' coexist alongside a formally Taylorist system. The paradox is the result of the 'shortage economy' that prevails in Hungary. Equality among the flexible workers, moreover, does not exist: there are marked divisions between the core workers and the floating periphery, who bear the greater part of the burden.

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  • Maria Lado & Ferenc Toth, 1988. "In the Shadow of Formal Rules," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 9(4), pages 523-533, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:9:y:1988:i:4:p:523-533
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8894006
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