Blue-Collar Workers in Eastern Europe

First published in 1981, Blue-Collar Workers in Eastern Europe deals with the attitudes and political disposition of the East European working class. This book covers all the major issues which brought about the widely publicised workers' rebellion in Poland in the summer of 1980.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Industrial Proletariat in Comparative Perspective 2. Changing Social Structure and the Political Role of Manual Workers 3. Political Attitudes and Activity 4. Can a Party of the Working Class be a Working-Class Party? 5. Workers and Mass Participation in Socialist Democracy 6. Aggregate Economic Difficulties and Workers' Welfare 7. Poland, 1980: The Working Class under 'Anomic Socialism' 8. Workers and Power 9. Observations on Strikes, Riots and other Disturbances 10. Poland: Workers and Politics 11. Czechoslovakia: a Proletariat Embourgeoise? 12. Hungary: the Lumpenproletarianization of the Working Class 13. Romania: Participatory Dynamics in 'Developed Socialism' 14. Yugoslav Exceptionalism 15. Workers' Assertiveness and Soviet Policy Choices 16. Workers' Assertiveness, Western Dilemmas Notes on Contributors Index

About the author

Jan F. Triska at the time of the original publication of this book was Professor of Political Science at Union College.
Charles Gati is a Senior Research Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.

Product details

• Authors: Jan F Gati Triska
• Assisted by: Gati Charles (Editor), Jan F Triska (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032704609
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270460-9
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet