1. THE NEW "AWKWARD CLASS": THE PEASANT-WORKER IN POLAND.
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Kolankiewicz, George
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SOCIOECONOMICS , *SOCIOLOGY , *PEASANTS , *SOCIAL classes , *CLASS identity , *LAND tenure - Abstract
One of the currently most interesting sources of rural sociological research in contemporary Poland is the examination of the socio-economic and political consequences arising from the co-existence of a largely privately owned agricultural sector and a state industrial sector. The emergence of the dual-occupational "peasant-worker" is just one very important aspect of this phenomenon, and the aim of this paper is to outline some of the problems it creates for both these sectors. These peasant-workers fall outside of the state's attempts at incorporating the individual peasant into the planned economy whilst at the same time they are not as responsive nor as dependent as might be desired upon the state's demands in industrial production. Their "awkwardness" is all the greater in that the state does not possess the resources to propel them in one direction or the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1980
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