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In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers' Party. She argues that political constraints on the available options for economic reform have encouraged a policy of merger of industrial enterprises into large `corporate' units since 1958. Although they are only a shadow of their Western counterparts, these socialist corporations' nevertheless pose considerable problems for the role of a Marxist-Leninist party in industry. While this does not manifest itself in the emergence of a clearly identifiable 'technocratic' class of managers challenging the legitimacy of the Party, it does involve difficulties caused by an increasingly 'technicist' ethos of industrial management which eschews the possibility of meaningful workforce participation. Dr Woodall thus shows how the over-zealous pursuit of industrial integration and concentration in the 1970s was, despite attempts by the Polish United Workers' Party to reformulate its 'leading role', one of the major factors contributing to the industrial unrest which brought about the fall of the Gierek leadership in 1980.

Economic order --- Poland --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Industrial organization --- Manpower policy --- Working class --- History --- Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- Polnische Vereinigte Arbeiterpartei --- Polish United Workers Party --- PZPR --- Polʹskai︠a︡ obʺedinennai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ --- PORP --- United Polish Workers' Party --- UPWP --- Parti ouvrier unifié polonais --- PVAP --- P.Z.P.R. --- P.O.R.P. --- U.P.W.P. --- P.V.A.P. --- Heniaion Ergatikon Komma tēs Polōnias --- Partido Operário Unificado Polonês --- POUP --- Polish Communist Party --- PUWP --- Polska Partia Socjalistyczna --- Polska Partia Robotnicza --- Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej