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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.

Blue collar workers --- Working class --- Post-communism --- Poland --- Social conditions --- Academic collection --- 316.42 <438> --- Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme--Polen --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Laborers --- Manual workers --- Employees --- Employment --- Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship) --- History --- 20th century --- 21st century --- Social change