The Postwar Mobility Transition in Eastern Europe

Fuchs, Roland J.; Demko, George J.

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“…In fact, dormitories are not new in the Czech Republic, and during the socialist period the state attempted to keep a large proportion of the population in the rural areas and concentrate industries in the major urban centers. This had shifted the costs and commuting from the state onto workers—who were typically male, young, and low‐skilled or manual laborers—as they used to live in the dormitories during their working week and return to their homes on weekend (Fuchs and Demko , 178). What is different today, compared with the previous historical process of industrialization, is both a more heterogeneous labor and more diversified forms of its control.…”

Section: Harmonious Sleepingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Made in the EU: Foxconn in the Czech Republic

Andrijasevic¹,

Sacchetto²

2014

Journal of Labor and Society

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Next to its 32 factories in mainland China, Foxconn has another 200 factories and subsidiaries around the world on which there is little or no data. This article focuses on plants in the Czech Republic, Foxconn's most important European site and the hub for export‐oriented electronics industry. It asks whether there are similarities between Foxconn's Chinese and European sites, two locations commonly imagined as separate and opposite in their management practices and treatment of the workforce. Drawing on sixty interviews with workers and privileged informants, the article outlines the labor process, forms of control, composition of labor, the role of the state, and the reach and impact of the trade unions in Foxconn's Czech plants. It makes visible the deterioration of working conditions in the Czech Republic, both under European Union regulations and just‐in‐time production by multinationals, and suggests that in order to understand the ongoing changes there is a need to move away from the idea of labor and labor markets as solely domestic actors, and toward a discussion on globally integrated politics of production.

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Section: Harmonious Sleepingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Made in the EU: Foxconn in the Czech Republic

Andrijasevic¹,

Sacchetto²

2014

Journal of Labor and Society

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“…The change to car-based commuting is dramatic. In 1982, only 14% of commuters used a car in the Tallinn metropolitan area [9], which was similar to the average of the Soviet Union [10]. Today about 60% or 19.000 of all commuters use a car as the main mean of transport for traveling between home and work in the Tallinn metropolitan area [7].…”

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Suburbanisation and commuting modes in the Tallinn metropolitan area

Leetmaa¹,

Metspalu²,

Tammaru³

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 93

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Suburbanisation is one of the most important features of spatial population change in Estonia. The aim of this article is to analyse the process of suburbanisation and related changes in commuting modes compared to the late Soviet period in the Tallinn metropolitan area. We use three datasets in our study: individual level 2000 census data, municipal planning documents and a sample survey. The results of the study indicate that most of the people who moved from Tallinn to its suburban areas in the 1990s moved to pre-transition period housing stock. However, the new housing construction is playing an increasingly important role in the suburbanisation process and in the course of time the process has taken the form of uncontrolled urban sprawl lead by the detailed rather than the master plans, and by the interests of real estate development companies. Besides, the sprawl of housing to the former natural and agricultural landscapes has considerably increased the commuters car-dependence compared to the late Soviet period. While public transport was the dominant commuting mode in the Soviet Estonia, today car-based commuting clearly dominates.

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“…This established a commonality of approach, and as advanced methodo logies were com bined with area expertise valuable insights could also be wrought from empirical material lacking in breadth and precision. Exam ples include the widely acclaimed study on the cities of the Soviet Union by Harris (1970) , which drew upon a wide set of concepts and techniques to elucidate the nature of the Soviet urban system, and the attempts by Fuchs and Demko (1978) to adapt Zelinsky' s (1971) seminal theory of mobility transition to a com mand econom y setting.…”

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Shortage, Priority and Urban Growth: Towards a Theory of Urbanisation under Central Planning

Sjöberg

1999

Urban Studies

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Su m m ary. Exten d ing previou s work on urbanisation under central planning, this pap er sets out from the econ om ics of shortage to develop a m odel of urban grow th in socialist societies . Im plyin g a focu s on the effects of investm ents on em ploym ent and hence urb an grow th, this m odel also takes the prop ensity of prod ucers to hoard lab our into accou nt. Su ch behaviou r, it is argu ed, gen erates con tinued em ploym ent exp ansion s over and above that created by the origin al decision to invest. F urtherm ore, and un like earlier w ork in this trad ition , an attem p t is m ade to accou nt for region ally differen tiated outcom es within individ ual econ om ies. To this end, the notion of priority is introd u ced . The resu ltin g m odelÐ delin eatin g arch etyp al`lan dscap es of priority' Ð not only cap tures the typical sequ ence of urb anisation exp erien ced by m any, if not m ost, of the form er socialist states of Europ e and Asia, but also indicates from where the econ om ies in tran sition from cen tral planning h ave to proceed .

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The Postwar Mobility Transition in Eastern Europe

Cited by 31 publications

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Made in the EU: Foxconn in the Czech Republic

Made in the EU: Foxconn in the Czech Republic

Suburbanisation and commuting modes in the Tallinn metropolitan area

Shortage, Priority and Urban Growth: Towards a Theory of Urbanisation under Central Planning

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