Hunters, gatherers, and practitioners of powerlessness : an ethnography of the degraded in postsocialist Poland /

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The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rakowski, Tomasz
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Polaco
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Series:European anthropology in translation ; volume 6.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Poverty > Poland.
Unemployment > Poland.
Post-communism > Poland.
Pauvreté > Pologne.
Postcommunisme > Pologne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Post-communism
Poverty
Social conditions
Unemployment
Armut
Postkommunismus
Sozialer Wandel
Poland > Social conditions > 21st century.
Pologne > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Poland
Polen
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Szydłowiec and Przysucha Environs; Chapter 2. Wałbrzych; Chapter 3. The Bełchatów Brown Coal Mine; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

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