A worker in a worker's state
Subtitle: piece-rates in Hungary
By: [by] Miklós Haraszti ; translated [from the Hungarian MS.] by Michael Wright ; with a foreword by Heinrich Böll ; a note about the author and transcript of the author's trial.
Series: Pelican books
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Harmondsworth; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Piecework -- Hungary.; Metal-workers -- Hungary.; Factory system -- Hungary.
Description: "The manuscript of A worker in a worker's state was seized in Budapest and its young marxist author, a promising Hungarian poet, was brought to trial for writing it. The People's Court found that the manuscript was 'liable to provoke hatred of the state'. Haraszti himself was fined and given a suspended sentence for 'grave incitement'. This book is a literary event as well as a pioneering report on industrial conditions in a typical East European factory. The different voices of personal experience, objective analysis and reported speech are woven together to create a convincing, gripping account ..."--Back cover.
Notes: German translation has title: Stücklohn.