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Episode: Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary
Pub date: 2020-03-20

Notes from The Cosmopolitan:

Income inequality comes down to measuring labour's worth and how its is commodified. This podcast turns to the example of socialist Hungary to examine how economists in a society without labour markets could nonetheless determine the value of labour, and what this says about socialism and capitalism.

This week’s podcast is “Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary,” the second in REEES Fall Series Socialism: Past, Present, and Future.

Guest:

Martha Lampland is a Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She’s the author of two books The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary and The Value of Labor: The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956 both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Music:

Throbbing Gristle, “Hamburger Lady,” D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report, 1978.

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