“to work only precisely, nicely…”
“to work only precisely, nicely…”

The brigade logs, as sources of the research of the working class of the Hungarian large-scale industry in the second half of 20th century

Summary/Abstract: Brigade logs have got rather little attention in the economic- and social history researches ofthe decades since the regime change. However, by appropriate source critique and by joint useof other type of sources we can gain very useful information from them. And we could say, thatneither they had been used as quasi-sources for the history of the socialist enterprises in thecourse of pre-1989 researches in the field of the history of factories and enterprises. The obviousreason for this was that during the active period of the socialist brigades the logs in better caseswere being administered in a systematic way, and provided with different notes. In the presentstudy I try to explore the possibilities for interpretation and analysis of this type of source, andthen I attempt to discuss – through the analysis of the examples of two enterprises of the vehicleindustry – the possible ways of their use. I think that the brigade logs, alike as the registers, whichcould provide aid for the elaboration of the social history of the Hungarian large scale industry,may contribute to the better understanding of the movement, to the research of working-classlife, and to the reconstruction of roles within the different social groups

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