Struggle for Recognition or Particular Interests? Workplacement of Graduates in the Socialist Dictatorship 1956-1968
Abstract
The paper deals with the topics of central planning and workplacement of graduates in official Czech and Polish discourses. In the 1960s, political authorities in Czechoslovakia and Poland have been confronted with problems of central planned workplacement of graduates.
Local actors such as industry companies, regional officials and higher education institutions have not been able to place graduates on the labour market according central plan. Problems with workplacement challenged the socialist order and endangered work and social mobility of young generation.
Moreover, problems with workplacement of graduates questioned socialist equality proclamed by communist leaders.