Solidarity and the politics of anti-politics: opposition and reform in Poland since 1968

In: Labor and social change

Abstract

""For both academic analysts and political activists, this book offers useful lessons from the Polish experience with anti-politics and neocorporatism."" --Political Science QuarterlyBased on extensive use of primary sources, this book provides an analysis of Solidarity, from its ideological origins in the Polish ""new left,"" through the dramatic revolutionary months of 1980-81, and up to the union's remarkable resurgence in 1988-89, when it sat down with the government to negotiate Poland's future. David Ost focuses on what Solidarity is trying to accomplish and why it is likely that.