• Introduction Part One: The Text
• 1: In Search of the Authors
• 2: The Past as a Legal Resource
• 3: Writing, Memory, and Knowledge
• 4: Communities of Memory and Knowledge Part Two: The World
• 5: Gathering the Monastic Estate
• 6: The World of Abbot Peter
• 7: The Long Thirteenth Century: The World of Peter's Continuator
• 8: The Long Thirteenth Century: Peasants and Townspeople Transformed
• 9: The Text and the World Bibliography.
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The Text and the World concerns one highly specific place and document-a medieval Cistercian monastery, and its remarkably interesting history, compiled at the monastery itself, for the monks' use-and explores several subjects now of great interest to all medieval historians, such as ethnicity and interethnic relations; comparative power and lordship; legal conflict; collective memory; and the expansion of literacy in the late-thirteenth century.
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• Acknowledgements
• 1. Patronage and Corruption in Communist Poland
• PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF OPPOSITION
• 2. The First Systemic Crisis
• 3. `Living Parallel to the System': The Solidarity Generation
• 4. A Line of Blood
• 5. An Opposition Emerges
• 6. Independent Organisations and Opposition
• PART II: THE SOLIDARITY REVOLUTION
• 7. The Solidarity Explosion
• 8. Social Solidarity and the Victory of Solidarnosc
• 9. The Solidarity Revolution
• 10. The Solidarity Offensive
• 11. Bydgoszcz: the Turning Point
• 12. The Party at War with Itself References Index.
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In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity--the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution explains how it happened, from the imposition to Communism to its end, based on 150 interviews of Solidarity leaders, activists, supporters and opponents. Bloom presents the perspectives and experiences of these participants. He shows how an opposition was built, the battle between Solidarity and the ruling party, the conflicts that emerged within each side during this tense period, how Solidarity survived the imposition of martial law and how the opposition forced the government to negotiate itself out of power.
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• A 'Risky'Business? - 2 Table of contents - 6 Acknowledgements - 8 1 Ukrainian migrant women, migrant domestic work and risk - 10 2 Risk, migration and migrant domestic work: Selected theory and research review - 20 3 Theoretical approach and research methodology applied in this study - 50 4 Ukrainian migrant women's images of risk - 64 5 Legal risks of migrationand legal risk-balancing strategies - 106 6 Risks and risk strategies in migrant domestic work - 138 7 Familiar risk: Ukrainian women in the Polishdomestic work sector - 176 Notes - 189 References - 201.
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This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant institutions effectively reduce the otherwise radical asymmetry of power between an individual migrant, the state and an employer. A Risky Business? brings to light the complex risk structures of migrants' activities and their sophisticated responses to them. With their innovative strategies, migrants challenge government-imposed constraints and thus reduce the risks of migration. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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• A 'Risky'Business? - 2 Table of contents - 6 Acknowledgements - 8 1 Ukrainian migrant women, migrant domestic work and risk - 10 2 Risk, migration and migrant domestic work: Selected theory and research review - 20 3 Theoretical approach and research methodology applied in this study - 50 4 Ukrainian migrant women's images of risk - 64 5 Legal risks of migrationand legal risk-balancing strategies - 106 6 Risks and risk strategies in migrant domestic work - 138 7 Familiar risk: Ukrainian women in the Polishdomestic work sector - 176 Notes - 189 References - 201.
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This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant institutions effectively reduce the otherwise radical asymmetry of power between an individual migrant, the state and an employer. A Risky Business? brings to light the complex risk structures of migrants' activities and their sophisticated responses to them. With their innovative strategies, migrants challenge government-imposed constraints and thus reduce the risks of migration. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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• 1 Introduction: Solidarity, Ideology, Instrumentality and Other Issues 2 Sweden: Focus on Fundamental Trade Union Rights 3 Spain: The Common Experience of Transition and a Military Coup 4 Italy: Diversity within United Solidarity 5 The ICFTU and the WCL: The International Coordination of Solidarity 6 Great Britain: Between Avoiding Cold War and Supporting Free Trade Unionism 7 The FRG: Humanitarian Support without Big Publicity 8 France: Exceptional Solidarity? 9 Denmark: International Solidarity and Trade Union Multilateralism 10 Belgium: the Christian Emphasis 11 Austria: an Ambivalent Attitude of Trade Unions and Political Parties 12 Abbreviations 13 About the Authors 14 Index.
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The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the changes. This book analyzes Western European social reaction to the Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarnosc, Revealing how many unionists hesitated between detente and workers' rights, between Atlantic cold warriors and European cooperation. It provides new insights relevant to historians dealing with the Cold War, Labor, and European integration.
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• Politics in the postemancipation Galician Village
• Emancipation and its discontents
• The roots of peasant civil society: premodern politics in the Galician Village
• Customs in conflict: peasant politics in the Viennese Reichstag and the Galician Sejm
• Making government work: the village commune as a school for political action
• The construction of a peasant pole
• The peasant as literary and ethnographic trope
• The gentry construction of peasants: agricultural circles and the resurgence of peasant culture
• Education and the shaping of a village elite
• The nation in the village: competing images of Poland in popular culture
• The village in the nation: Polish peasants as a political force
• Conclusion: The main currents of peasant nationalism.

How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook the independent contribution of peasant societies. She explores the complex case of the Polish peasants of Austrian Galicia, from the 1848 emancipation of the serfs to the eve of the First World War. In the years immediately after emancipation, Polish-speaking peasants were more apt to identify with the Austrian Emperor and the Catholic Church than with their Polish lords or the middle classes of the Galician capital, Cracow. Yet by the end of the century, Polish-speaking peasants would cheer, "Long live Poland" and celebrate the centennial of the peasant-fueled insurrection in defense of Polish independence. The explanation for this shift, Stauter-Halsted says, is the symbiosis that developed between peasant elites and upper-class reformers. She reconstructs this difficult, halting process, paying particular attention to public life and conflicts within the rural communities themselves. The author's approach is at once comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from literature on national identity formation in Latin America, China, and Western Europe. The Nation in the Village combines anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism with economic, social, cultural, and political history.
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