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Völkerrecht und "Berufsverbote" in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1976-1992 : die Kontrollverfahren der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation in Theorie und Praxis
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ISBN: 3428082176 Year: 1995

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Poland's solidarity movement and the global politics of human rights
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ISBN: 1108565239 1108568521 1108478522 9781108565233 9781108478526 1108665497 9781108460491 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press

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In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history - Poland's Solidarity movement - Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change.

The Polish solidarity movement
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ISBN: 1134740433 1280318694 0203448200 9780203448205 9780415169400 0415169402 0415169402 9781280318696 9781134740437 9786610318698 6610318697 9781134740383 9781134740420 1134740425 Year: 1997 Publisher: London New York Routledge

Repression and resistance in Communist Europe
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ISBN: 1134400446 1280073225 0203438906 9780203438909 9786610073221 6610073228 9780415306690 0415306698 0415306698 9781134400447 9781134400393 113440039X 9781134400430 1134400438 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon


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Maîtrise : leçons d'économie industrielle et sociale, à l'usage des agents de maîtrise et des élèves des écoles d'enseignement technique
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Year: 1932 Publisher: Paris: Editions de l'usine,

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Tussen restauratie, herstichting en transformatie : de Orde van het Heilige Kruis, 1840-1927. 1 : Het afsterven van de oude wereld (18de eeuw-1815)
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Gent s.n.

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The roots of solidarity: a political sociology of Poland's working-class democratization
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ISBN: 0691078629 1306986184 0691606897 1400861551 0691635587 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton University Press

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In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state." Laba had set himself the ambitious task of documenting the history of Poland's free trade union. Martial law was in force for the last year of his stay, but even during that time he continued his rescue of the unique historical materials that contribute so much to Roots of Solidarity. The book uses this hard-earned information to challenge the commonly accepted view of the Polish intelligentsia as the driving force behind Solidarity and to demonstrate that the roots of the movement go back a decade earlier than the 1980 strikes. Laba presents compelling evidence that Solidarity emerged directly from the activities of workers in the 1970s along the Baltic coast. It was not the intellectual elite but these workers, independent of and unknown to the rest of Poland, who created three crucial strategies for struggle against oppression: the sit-down strike, the interfactory strike committee, and the demand for free trade unions independent of the party state. This concise and provocative work is divided into two parts. The first is a narrative of the creation of Solidarity. The second shows how workers' resistance to the Leninist state gradually generated new forms of democratic organizations and politics. Laba criticizes elitist ways of understanding social movements and also presents an unusual analysis of Solidarity's ritual symbolism. In addition, new evidence transforms our understanding of the role of the police and the army in a one-party state.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Polish challenge
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ISBN: 0563200545 0563200413 Year: 1982 Publisher: London : British Broadcasting Corporation,

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