Polish workers and the post-communist transition, 1989–1993

Challenges for long-term industry restructuring in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin: What has Polish coal mining achieved and failed from a twenty-year perspective?

“…However, these collieries remained state-owned. As a result, at the beginning of the restructuring, there were 70 independent mining enterprises mainly located in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Karbownik and Stachowicz, 1994;Kramer, 1995).…”

Fallen Heroes in Global Capitalism

“…The exceptions are representative surveys of industrial workers carried out by the team around Gardawski (Gardawski, 1996 ;Gardawski et al, 2009;Gardawski et al, 2010 ), studies on rural workers and from an anthropological perspective (Pine, 2002 ) or analyses of the role of workers for transformation (Federowicz, 2004 ). Related sets of literature deal with labour representation Meardi, 2007a ;Ost, 2000a) and, in particular, labour quiescence (Ashwin, 1999 ;Kramer, 1995b ), working conditions , class structure (Doma ń ski, 2005;Evans and Mills, 1999 ; 2005 ; Shabad and Slomczynski, 2004 ) and the emerging poverty and culture of poverty (Doma ń ski, 2002 ;Pine, 2002 ). Case studies on the way capital has imposed new work practices are absent from transformation studies, with the exception of Dunn ( 2002 ).…”

Towards Eurosclerosis: Will Poland Escape?

“…The context for the work is provided by an examination of certain salient features of the Polish labour market over the years 1997-2007. As such, it does not review developments in the country's early transition years, about which there are numerous detailed accounts, including OECD (1994), Kramer (1995), Allison andRingold (1996), Funck andPizzati (2002) and Grotkowska et al (2005). The period under review can be divided conveniently into two: the years 1997-2003, over which time Poland's record on numerous counts was little short of disastrous, and the years 2003-07, when there was a rapid and impressive reversal of fortune on many fronts.…”