Factory Workers in a “Worker’s State”

Factory Workers in a “Worker’s State”

This book is Miklos Haraszti’s account of his experiences in 1972 as a machinist in the Red Star tractor factory in Budapest, Hungary. It vividly portrays the degradation of work in what is supposedly a socialist workers’ state.


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