{"product_id":"9780299113643-socialist-entrepreneurs","title":"Socialist Entrepreneurs","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmbourgeoisement in Rural Hungary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the East European nations, Hungary has been noted in recent years  for permitting, even encouraging, family entrepreneurship in  agriculture. In this highly empirical study, Ivan Szelenyi and his  collaborators explore this phenomenon, affording a rare view of the  reemergence of private sector activity in a socialist society, and  offering new insights into the very origins of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e    In the years since the government relaxed its policy of forced  collectivization, approximately ten percent of rural Hungarian families  have taken up entrepreneurial opportunities in agriculture. Why they  have chosen this course—and why ninety percent of family have chosen to  remain in proletarian or cadre positions—are central questions in  Szelenyi’s inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e    The theory advocated here is one of “interrupted embourgeoisement.”  Those people who, during the years of Stalinism, found occupations in  which they could successfully resist the dual pressures of  proletarianization and cadrefication are the ones now able to reenter  the interrupted embourgeoisement trajectory. As a result, the communist  “revolution from above” has been challenged by a somewhat unexpected  “revolution from below,” in the process producing a socialist mixed  economic system that seems to be as different from Soviet—style  communism as it is from Western capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a very, very important work, combining rich primary research by  Szelenyi and four colleagues with a major ‘step toward a theory of  articulation of a state socialist mixed economy.’  .  .  .  Using  surveys from 1972-73 and 1982-84, the authors traced life histories to  identify variables that showed why families responded differently to  proletarianization, formation of a new working class, or  embourgeoisement.”—\u003ci\u003eWorld Development\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58332710994294,"sku":"9780299113643","price":16.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41433558.jpg?v=1784906871","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780299113643-socialist-entrepreneurs","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}