Foreword / Don Kalb
Socialist primitive accumulation in Cluj
Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948
"More precious than gold" : labour instability and the stickyness of everyday life
"Workers," "proletarians," and the struggle for cheap labour
Time and accumulation on the shopfloor
"Hidden reserves of productivity" and the quest for knowledge
Productive flows and factory discipline
Planned heroism and nonsynchronicity on the shopfloor
Epilogue: Really existing socialism as nonsynchronicity.