CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Ludlová, Nikola |
|---|---|
| Title | Scientific Management of Labour and Production in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945 |
| Summary | The subject of the present thesis is a political instrumentalization of the scientific institution with the interwar socialist democratic legacy by German occupying power in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1939 and 1945. It is argued that the expertise of the Human Labour Institute in scientific management was tapped by the Nazi Germany to secure victory in the war. Further it is posited that the harnessing of the Institute by Germans was in direct connection to the so-called Production Miracle that supervened in the Reich between 1942 and 1944 after introducing the rationalization methods into the war production. Because of Czechoslovakia’s interwar prominence in the Central European technocratic movement there was a strong institutional foothold on which Germans could capitalize. Thus, it was only the combination of the two factors: the positive experience of Germans from the Reich and the existence of the institutional scientific structure in the Protectorate that were conducive to the political instrumentalization of the Human Labour Institute by Germans. Further, the thesis explores how knowledge production takes place within the politically and socially specific context of occupation and global war conflict. What factors decide on its research agenda, to what goals is the knowledge utilized and what is the larger structure in which the knowledge production is anchored. What are the relations between the individual actors in this structure, and how the structure changes in response to external factors (development in the war conflict). |
| Supervisor | Zimmermann, Susane Karin; Seifert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/ludlova_nikola.pdf |
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