Deserved : economic memories after the fall of the Iron Curtain

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"After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were completely disrupted, and the meanings attached to work were drastically altered. How did people who found themselves living under state socialism one day and capitalist democracy the next adjust to the changing social order and its new system of values? Till Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change. Despite the structural nature of economic shifts, people often interpret life outcomes in individual terms. Many are deeply attached to the belief that success and failure must be deserved. Emphasizing individual effort, responsibility, and character, they pass moral judgments based on a person’s fortunes in the job market. Hilmar argues that such frameworks represent ways of making sense of the profound economic and social dislocations after 1989. People craft narratives of deservingness about themselves and others to solve the problem of belonging in a new social order. Drawing on in-depth interviews with engineers and care workers as well as historical and comparative analysis of the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe, Deserved sheds new light on the moral imagination of capitalism and the experience of economic change. This book also offers crucial perspective on present-day politics, showing how notions of deservingness and moral worth have propelled right-wing populism."--Nakladatelská anotace … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Till Hilmar, 1985-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

7 nečíslovaných stran, 263 stran ; 23 cm

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Subjects

od 1989

postkomunismus > Evropa střední a východní

ekonomie a politika > Evropa střední a východní > od 1989

kapitalismus > Evropa střední a východní > od 1989

ekonomická transformace > Evropa střední a východní > od 1989

společenská transformace > Evropa střední a východní > od 1989

post-communism > Europe, Central and Eastern

economics and politics > Europe, Central and Eastern > 1989-

capitalism > Europe, Central and Eastern > 1989-

economic transformation > Europe, Central and Eastern > 1989-

social transformation > Europe, Central and Eastern > 1989-

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ISBN

978-0-231-20979-3