ABSTRACT
In the new Rakoczi collective the major problem of internal organization was that certain groups of members refused to work together. The great divide was between the Nagy and Nemes members. In the new Rakoczi members from Nagy controlled most offices. The chairman, burdened with an increasing administrative workload, no longer took his place in the fields to work alongside ordinary members, as had happened in the smaller collectives. The formalization of the collective structure and establishment of the management's authority improved discipline among the members. Work discipline improvements were not due to the success of 'ideological education' but, in the view of the contemporary observers, to the more direct relationship between the collective's profits and members' income. The collective was continuous with the village - even though both politically and economically it was still closely monitored by outside agencies.
