Book ID: CBB554409894

The Socialist People's Car: Automobiles, Shortages, and Consent on the Czechoslovak Road to Mass Production (1918-64) (2013)

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Fava, Valentina (Author)


Amsterdam University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 194
Language: English

"The Socialist People's Car reconstructs the history of Skoda Auto between 1918 and 1964. Based on new archival research, Fava's volume illustrates the contradictions of the Czechoslovak experience, raising the question of how the stratification of foreign technical and organizational knowledge shaped the Czechoslovak production practices and generated a specific technical and organizational culture. The volume not only illustrates how this culture was formed, what its components were, and how engineers and managers performing their professional duties related to the Party's power but also addresses the Party's controversial approach to mass motorization." --Back cover.

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Authors & Contributors
Lenka Krátká
Kateřina Lišková
Michal Ďurčo
Gatejel, Luminita
Pozharliev, Lyubomir
Vilímek, Tomáš
Concepts
Technology and politics
Socialism
Automobiles
Users of technology
Technology
Automobile industry
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
United States
Yugoslavia
Germany
Serbia
Institutions
Škoda (Firm)
Ford Motor Company
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