Conventional left-wing ideologies are unable to guide progressive politics among the new structures of social cleavages. This does not mean that we are facing totally new types of conflicts. The point is that in order to restore the viability of the left, we must address problems ignored in the past.
Category Archives: Former issues
Wonmen in Hungary, 1996
There have been several debates in the Hungarian press about the impact of the systemic change on the conditions of women in East-Central Europe. This time, the participants of the discussion at Kossuth Klub present their opinions based on research and personal experience.
Feminism and Marxism
It has become slightly easier to assess the paralel development of Marxism and Feminism throughout the 20th century. The reconciliation of the two tendencies has been dependent on how the struggle against capitalism and patriarchy could be accomodated.
Women in macroeconomics
Mainstream economic thought tells us that the realm of the economy includes what can be measured in money terms. As we all know, this excludes virtually all housework, which is mostly done by women. This is, however, only the beginning of the story.
No. 28 | (Winter 1995)
The world of labour has many complex questions for social researchers. How persistent is the mass unemployment developed during the "economic transition"? Whether trade unions can play a role in forming the economic policy? What is the role of women labour in catching-up? Whether physical work will lose its relevance and so the traditional contradiction between capital and labour? Questions of popular interest but not properly answered from a scientific point of view can be listed for long. The current issue of Eszmélet cannot promise that its articles will answer the above questions thoroughly but at least will show reference points and the main lines of research that can lead to possible answers.
Table of contents
- Thoma László, Simon János, Bayer József, Szöllősi Istvánné, Ágh Attila, Szoboszlai György, Krausz Tamás, Wiener György : Trade unions and politics
- Göran Therborn : Patterns and meaning of unemployment
- Rainer Deppe, Melanie Tatur : Trade unions and system change in Poland and Hungary
- Saskia Sassen : Migration in the world economy
- Competition and change
- Matheika Zoltán : On the social determination of the labour process
- Erdősné dr. Simon Zsuzsa : Labour legislation in Hungary
- Hovorka János : Employee share ownership
- Trautmann László, Sugár András : The misterious sector
- Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : On the intellectual mode of production
- Tabák Lajos : On the way of photos (self-portrait)
- Andor László : Labor politics – past, present and future – interview with Tony Benn
- Tony Benn : A bill for the Commonwealth of Europe
- Stephanie Seguino : Trade secrets: sexism and export-led growth in South-Korea
- Czéh Zoltán : The Gulag from en economic point of view