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.
