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In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers' Party. She argues that political constraints on the available options for economic reform have encouraged a policy of merger of industrial enterprises into large `corporate' units since 1958. Although they are only a shadow of their Western counterparts, these socialist corporations' nevertheless pose considerable problems for the role of a Marxist-Leninist party in industry. While this does not manifest itself in the emergence of a clearly identifiable 'technocratic' class of managers challenging the legitimacy of the Party, it does involve difficulties caused by an increasingly 'technicist' ethos of industrial management which eschews the possibility of meaningful workforce participation. Dr Woodall thus shows how the over-zealous pursuit of industrial integration and concentration in the 1970s was, despite attempts by the Polish United Workers' Party to reformulate its 'leading role', one of the major factors contributing to the industrial unrest which brought about the fall of the Gierek leadership in 1980

Die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit betrifft alle europäischen Länder. Die Gewerkschaften haben keine schlüssige und koordinierte Strategie zu ihrer Bekämpfung. Am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik, Großbritanniens und Frankreichs werden gewerkschaftliche Reaktionen auf selektive Arbeitsmarktpolitiken der Regierungen - z.B. Erleichterung des Übergangs von der Schule ins Arbeitsleben - untersucht. Dabei spielen die jeweils nationalen Gegebenheiten der Gewerkschaften eine große Rolle (politische Orientierung und Legitimität; organisatorische, finanzielle und zahlenmäßige Stärke; Tarifvertragswesen; Verhältnis zu Jugendorganisationen). Trotz des Problembewußtseins differieren die gewerkschaftlichen Handlungsmöglichkeiten stark. (AuD-Hng)

In terms of the unions' political alignment and policy-making role, financial and organizational resources, practices of collective bargaining, and relations with other organizations representing youth.

THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS in Poland are innumerable and difficult to unravel. Rightly the Western press has focused on the ideological aspects and on the prominent part played by the Catholic Church. This article chooses to focus more on social factors and on the manner in which traditional forces in Polish society have persisted into the state-socialist period.While the recent bout of industrial protest in Poland was initially concerned with meat prices, it raised the question of control over much wider aspects of social consumption, and of dissatisfaction on the part of some workers with work-force democracy, and of others with the consequences of economic reform. The Polish industrial manual working class has a complex structure but the gap between it and the white-collar intelligentsia is not wide, and the pull and push of events in the work place can result in a pattern of shifting alliances. This has serious implications for the claim that the long-awaited union of intelligentsia and working class in Poland is at last beginning to appear. In order to put these problems in the right perspective one has to examine three different factors: the economic policy of the Polish Communist government, the new composition of the work force and the new structure of the intelligentsia.

An attempt is made to place the events of the summer of 1980 in Poland in the context of economic & social trends of the 1970s. It is argued that any correct appreciation has to take account of the economic strategy of import-led growth & industrial merger, & of the emergence of a new industrial Wc that is internally highly differentiated, but with fluid boundaries between it & the peasantry & intelligentsia. Despite attempts by the Polish United Workers Party to restyle its "leading role" & recruitment policy in the 1970s, this particular constellation of social forces ensured that the Party strategy failed as it incorporated much discontent within its ranks. AA.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on case study research of employment downsizing and the implications for equal opportunity and diversity management conducted in the UK airline industry during 2002/2003.Design/methodology/approachReview of literature on downsizing and equal opportunity and diversity management followed by identification of a number of research questions which are answered with reference to secondary analysis of labour market data and interviews with key informants from senior management and line management.FindingsA planned approach to downsizing had been adopted that was strongly influenced by the human resources function in terms of equal opportunity and diversity management. An adverse impact on different employee groups had been avoided in order to sustain the diversity of the workforce.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focuses on the management of downsizing and equal opportunity and diversity management. It addresses the perceptions of managers involved in developing and implementing policy, but does not examine the perceptions of other employees.Practical implicationsThere are some reflections on ways in which equal opportunity and diversity management policy might adapt to organisational change and downsizing.Originality/valueThis paper brings together two scholarly debates on downsizing and equal opportunity and diversity management, and provides case study evidence of how an equal opportunity and diversity management agenda is implemented during organisational restructuring and downsizing.