The discourses on workers and the division of the modern Hungarian working class

Authors

  • Tibor VALUCH Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science; Eszterházy Károly Catholic University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18030/socio.hu.2022.1.5

Keywords:

labour, workers, discourses, fragmentation, modern Hungarian society

Abstract

In modern Hungarian society the importance and role of the working class increased until the end of the 20th century. In the present study I will try to review how the perception of this social group changed, and how they were thought of in politics and science. I will also try to present some of the characteristics of the social and political stratification of the modern Hungarian working class from the late dualism period through the Horthy era, state socialism and regime change up to the 2010s, linking this to the public discourse and the academic literature on the working class in each period.

Author Biography

Tibor VALUCH, Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science; Eszterházy Károly Catholic University

Historian, DSc, research professor at the Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science and professor at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University.

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Published

2022-02-21

How to Cite

Valuch, T. (2022). The discourses on workers and the division of the modern Hungarian working class. Socio.hu Social Science Review.Hu Social Science Review, 12(1), 5–18. https://doi.org/10.18030/Socio.hu Social Science Review.2022.1.5

Issue

Vol. 12, No. 1 (2022)

Section

Munkás(k)uta(táso)k a tervgazdálkodástól a vadkapitalizmusig - articles (eds. Éva Kovács – Csaba Dupcsik)