Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vi
4. Foreword: What Was the Plan? And What Was It Meant to Do? vii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Introduction 1
7. I Primitive Socialist Accumulation in Cluj
8. Chapter 1 Productive State Apparatuses Taking Over the Factories, 1944–1948 37
9. Chapter 2 ‘More Precious Than Gold’ Labour Instability and the ‘Stickiness’ of Everyday Life 75
10. Chapter 3 ‘Workers’, ‘Proletarians’ and the Struggle for Cheap Labour 109
11. II Time and Accumulation on the Shop Floor
12. Chapter 4 ‘Hidden Reserves of Productivity’ and the Quest for Knowledge 147
13. Chapter 5 Productive Flows and Factory Discipline 178
14. Chapter 6 Planned Heroism and Nonsynchronicity on the Shop Floor 204
15. Epilogue: Really Existing Socialism as Nonsynchronicity 228
16. Bibliography 235
17. Index 243