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Record W4406625347 · doi:10.29173/cons29555

The Price of Their Sweat

2025· article· en· W4406625347 on OpenAlex
Nathan Lapierre

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueConstellations · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSWEATArtEconomicsMedicineInternal medicine

Abstract

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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution highlighted the failures of Stalinist policies and violent suppression as a means of establishing legitimacy, prompting the Hungarian government under János Kádár to adopt the New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in 1968. Aimed at revitalizing Hungary’s domestic market and export potential, the NEM replaced rigid Soviet-style central planning with a more flexible, market-conscious system of autonomous enterprises. This study examines the social and economic impacts of the NEM on the Hungarian working class throughout the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on how its implementation eroded working-class power, constructed new forms of class conflict between factory workers and the new managerial elite, and eroded socialist work culture as societal values shifted towards consumerism. Drawing from firsthand accounts, factory surveys, and state records, this study reveals how workers experienced the contradictory repercussions of NEM. Rather than strengthening the working class, as Marxist-Leninist theory would dictate, Kádár’s NEM precipitated wage stagnation, recreated class conflict, and effectively diminished the power of the Hungarian working class. These contradictions, embodied in labor practices and social dynamics, paved the way for the decline of the socialist state and the rise of individualism within the Hungarian workplace and beyond.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.948
Threshold uncertainty score0.759

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it