Job Assignment of Graduates of the University of Bucharest and Their Integration in the Labor System of the 1980s

• Authors: Mirela Rotaru
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

According to the official communist rhetoric, the assignment of higher education graduates to socialist enterprises and/or institutions was ‘an action with profound social-political meanings, which aims to ensure the production units and other areas which the specialists they need’. The closure of the top most populated 14 cities starting with 1981 combined with the economic crisis of the 1980s and with various measures of the regime perceived as absurd, and made the system more restrictive than ever before. This study focuses on the changes of the job supply for graduates of the University of Bucharest during the 1980s, and on the process of assigning graduates to their work-place.

Keywords

EN

assignment; graduates; production; planned economy; 1980s

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 153-162

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Mirela Rotaru

• University of Bucharest, Faculty of History

References

• Archives of the Bucharest University Rectorate, Secretariat, Registers no. 2821/1980 and 2857/1980.
• Archives of the Law School of the University of Bucharest, Secretariat Records, Assignments.
• Archives of the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Bucharest, Secretariat Records, Register no. I-III/1976 and I-II/1977.
• Murgescu, B. (2010) România şi Europa. Acumularea decalajelor economice (1500-2000). Iaşi: Polirom.
• Sadlak, J. (1990) Higher education in Romania, 1860 – 1990: between academic mission, economic demands and political control. Buffalo: State University of New York.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2014-0018