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"With Vietnam We Are Bound as Brothers": Theorizing Socialism, Internationalism, and the Politics of Public Agency Among Vietnamese Contract Workers in the German Democratic Republic

This thesis considers the social, economic and ideological climate in the German Democratic Republic in the last decade of its existence (the 1980s) when excessive labor demands lead the country to import tens of thousands of “contract workers” from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Focusing primarily on theoretical contradictions in GDR socialism, and their impact on the day to day lives Vietnamese workers, I will argue that ideologically freighted pronouncements of “socialist fraternity” with Vietnam functioned to obscure the true, economic reasons for labor importation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:history_theses-1061
Date07 January 2013
Creatorsschmitt, jonathan m
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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