Modernization Crisis

This book is an enlightening, inspiring, and sobering account of the social and economic transformation of Poland. A multinational and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the historical precursors that gave shape to the Solidarity movement, then focus on the institutional change that today presents challenges even more daunting than those of the earlier drama of resistance. The contributors have uncovered episodes of political domination, debt, and dependency that are not well known or well understood. These have important implications for economic development in general and for the reconstruction of the deindustrializing economies of Eastern Europe in particular. If Poland is to survive the crisis of the early 1990s, a new and authentic program of economic and human development must be adopted by West and East alike. The book concludes with a new discourse on development.

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Introduction by William Dan Perdue
The Polish Social Transformation
Crucible of Resistance: History, Catholicism and the Polish Transformation by Tadeusz Borkowski
Polish Democracy at the Grass Roots by Andrzej Bukowski and Stanislaw Marmuszewski
Prisoner of Paradox: The Polish Economic Transformation by Grazyna Skapska
Unemployment: A Triple Challenge to Human Development by Aleksander Marcinkowski and Jerzy B. Sobczak
The Polish Economic Transformation
The Transformation Process: From Command to Markets by Andrzej Szopa
Privatization in Poland: Big Bang or Whimper? by Jacek Klich
The Open Economy: Mirage and Reality by Andrzej Komanski
The Human Toll: Unemployment in Poland by Arkadiusz Sobczyk
Social Policy Implications of the New Polish Economy by Jacek Klich
The Polish Educational Transformation
Polish Democracy and the University by Stanislaw Palka
The Social Functions of Schools in the New Poland by Ewa Zareba
The Teacher as Innovator: Transforming Polish Education by Krzysztof Polak
From Authoritarianism to Pedagogical Democracy by Boguslawa Matwijow
Toward the Future
A New Discourse for Polish Development by William Dan Perdue
Bibliography
Index