Coping with social change
Subtitle: life strategies of workers in Poland's new capitalism
By: Adam Mrozowicki
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789058678652
Subjects: Social conditions; Post-communism; Working class; Blue collar workers
Other titles: Life strategies of workers in Poland's new capitalism
Description: The concerns of the people, whose experiences are explored in this book, rarely make it through to the academic discourse and political praxis in Central and Eastern Europe. In the public discourse and in many sociological accounts, manual workers tend to be represented as disoriented victims of post-socialist transformation. But how can such an approach explain the diversity of the actual ways of coping with social change adopted by workers in the new capitalist reality? To address this question the author turns to workers themselves, to their life strategies and personal experiences. He reconstructs the processes of adapting to and resisting structural changes in working-class milieus in one of the industrial regions of Poland (Silesia). Through this in-depth analysis of 166 personal interviews with blue-collar workers, Mrozowicki reaches general conclusions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263).

Text in English, with brief summaries in English and Polish at conclusion of book.