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Where is the Post-socialist Working Class?

Working-Class Lives in the Spaces of (Post-)Socialism

Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies

In reflecting on two recent popular representations of Poland’s working-class communities and ongoing work in one particular community in southern Poland, this article explores a range of literatures that locate working-class communities in both socialism and post-socialism. It draws attention to the dualities of representation of these working-class communities and seeks to explain these representations, connecting the specificities of the post-socialist world to wider social and economic shifts. Building on the ‘new working-class studies’ and other recent interpretations of working-class lives and cultures, it invokes alternative accounts of working-class lives after socialism, which move beyond the dualities identified, and seeks to reinscribe class as important in the discourses and materialities of post-socialism, East and West.

Key Words: Poland • (post-)socialism • working-class communities

Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 5, 983-999 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038505058382


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