Workers’ Councils in the Prague Spring of 1968

Jiři Kosta

Chapter 5 in The Economics of Co-Determination, 1977, pp 61-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Czechoslovak economic reform began about three years before the Prague Spring of 1968. The initial steps were in their impact on the decision-making institutions guided by technocratic considerations. In 1966 and 1967 a large proportion of the centrally fixed planning targets (production targets, manpower, investments) were suspended and greater powers of decision were granted to individual enterprises; the orders of the planning bureaucracy were replaced by economic policy instruments and indicative targets emanating from the centre; there was a change of direction from the fetishism of quantity to efficiency criteria; but in spite of all these improvements, the majority of workers were still excluded from the economic decision-making process.

Keywords: Trade Union; Economic Reform; Communist Party; Worker Council; Socialist Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03117-7_5

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