Managing productivity challenges: a glocal story of Brașov in late socialism (GloBv.)
Grant nr.PN-IV-P2-2.1-TE-2023-1822, financed by CNCS-UEFISCDI, October 2025-September 2027, total budget 94000 Euro, P.I.: CS III Dr. Corina Doboș
GloBv. undertakes a global micro-historical research of the Brașov tractor factory (Uzina Tractorul Brașov – UTB) in late socialism. With the help of a micro-historical lens, the project focuses on the (re)organization of the production process to attain
better productivity (labour organization, factory regimes, organizational & managerial adjustments of production and labor, technological transfers, technological change) in response to the structural challenges brought by both the transition to an intensive model of economic growth in the 1960s-1970s and by the world economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s The present research is intended to operate as a microhistorical laboratory, to test and nuance the existing macro-economic explanations of the economic failure of state-socialist regimes, and to amend them by proposing different temporalities and periodizations derived from global micro-historical research.
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