The case of Poland represents one of the many variants of the rapid changes in industry that took place around the world under the influence of accelerated globalisation in the 1990s. In Poland, the public and academic debates concerning that period have for many years been imprisoned in normative and dichotomous terms like socialism vs. capitalism, homo sovieticus vs. homo oeconomicus, and losers vs. winners of the transformation. Nowadays, it is back in the 1990s that the root causes of social anger are being sought, which not only in Eastern Europe, but all over the world led to the rise to power of populist and anti-establishment parties two decades later. Our project contrasts with such simplified interpretations. The historical-biographical-narrative method we have chosen helps to create a nuanced description of the diverse experience of transformation, as well as the ways it is remembered among industrial workers
This project has received funding from the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland in the framework of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities in 2013-2018. No 0103/NPRH2/H11/81/2013.
