The Relationship between Higher Education and the Workforce in Romanian Socialist Industry Case-study of the ‘23 August’ Factory

• Authors: Valentin Vasile
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the mechanisms used to integrate higher education graduates in socialist economic units. The case-study referring to the ‘23 August’ factory in Bucharest mainly relies on the files of Securitate, and those of the economic section of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party. It also outlines the practical difficulties faced by various groups of higher education graduates – engineers, economic staff, human sciences graduates – as well as their efficiency within the communist industrial framework. The study combines the description and analysis of numerical allocation, the responsibilities and the results of the activities carried out by higher education graduates.

Keywords

EN

higher education; engineers; factory relationships; employees; Securitate

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 163-174

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Valentin Vasile

• The National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2014-0019