Linda O. Fuller: Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A comparison of the expansion of workers' control after 1970 with the situation in the 1960s<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877228936&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="762_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba</h1> <h3>Linda O. Fuller</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-893-0 $54.95, Mar 92, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 311 pp 6x9 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"[An] excellent analysis of Cuba which is long overdue."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>American Journal of Sociology</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>In contrast to the common image of Cuba as a totalitarian dictatorship, Linda Fuller argues that, as Cuban socialism has matured, important democratic advances also have been made. Tracing the path of reform in the area of workplace democracy in Cuba over the last thirty years, she compares the expansion of workers' control after 1970 with the situation in the 1960s. The question that guides this comparison is complex as well as controversial: What would the democratization of work actually entail? The author addresses it through in-depth interviews with Cuban workers, primary documents, and a close look at a variety of institutions, including unions, the Party, management and planning systems, and grievance committees. <p>Fuller also examines how and why changes toward greater democratization of work occurred in Cuba. She approaches this question through a historical analysis of the politics of institutionalizing socialism in Cuba. The key to this history is not, as has often been argued, Castro's personality, the Soviet Union, or even the global political economy. Rather it can be found in the relationship between the country's political leaders and the mass of Cuban citizens in the 1950s and 1960s, a relationship unlike those that developed in most other socialist countries. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"Not only an important addition to the existing literature on the Cuban revolution and the nature of socialism, but also a timely contribution to the current debates about the need and prospects for reform within the ever diminishing socialist bloc."</I> <br>&#151<b>Andrew Zimbalist</b>, Smith College <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br>1. What Might Democratization at Work Entail? <br>2. Changing Union Functions <br>3. Changing Union Organization <br>4. The Cuban Communist Party <br>5. Changes in Enterprise Autonomy: From Budgetary Finance to the SDPE <br>6. The Role of Workers in Formulating Workplace Plans <br>7. Resolving Disputes at Cuban Worksites <br>8. The Changing Worksite Relationship Among Unions, Management, and the Party <br>9. Accounting for Changes in the Control of Production in Postrevolutionary Cuba <br>Notes <br>References <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Linda O. Fuller</b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/labor.html" TARGET="_top">Labor Studies and Work</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/labor_change.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Labor and Social Change</a></i>, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni. </p><p><i>Labor and Social Change</i>, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni, includes books on workplace issues like worker participation, quality of work life, shorter hours, technological change, and productivity, as well as union and community organizing and ethnographies of particular occupations.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877228936&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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