The Structural Marks of Factory Life in the Late Period of Romanian Communism as represented by the 23 August Works
The Structural Marks of Factory Life in the Late Period of Romanian Communism as represented by the 23 August Works

Summary/Abstract: My paper deals with the structural paradigms of the planned economy in late communist Romania. With the use of an anthropological method of analysis, I try to establish a pattern in the contextualization of daily factory life by using the example of the 23 August Works, chosen because of their symbol-function in the propaganda apparatus of the Ceauşescu regime. The first segment of the paper presents the theoretical considerations of such an analysis, while the second part is a short case study regarding the perceptions of former employees in an enterprise which can be interpreted as a mirror of Romanian society near the end of the communist experiment.

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