The social organization of production on a Romanian cooperative farm

Summary and conclusions

The organization of the major, locally based production activities thus indicates responsiveness by the CAP administration to the demands of village social organization and, more specifically, to those of the village household. However, the successful organization of such activities only represents effective horizontal integration of the CAP at the local level. The strength of the household, coupled with the horizontal integration of the upper strata of the CAP, enables the organization to function with some degree of success. This structure, however, also acts to maintain the family household in all of its former prominence, a development that is viewed by some as detrimental to the socialist principles on which the CAP is constructed [20]. In addition, CAP is still plagued by numerous difficulties: some degree of worker alienation, poor interorganizational communication, and a persistent disenchantment with the organization's managerial class, among other things. Obviously, these continuing difficulties arise out of an inability to integrate effectively the managerial and working classes of the organization

Despite this brief and somewhat abstract delineation of the basic organization of the CAP, it is still possible to suggest that its structural discontinuities (between workers and managers) will continue to play a major role in impeding the production goals of the CAP, and will be an impediment to the building of socialism in the Romanian countryside.