Alison Stenning. Where is the Post-socialist Working Class? Working-Class Lives in the Spaces of (Post-)Socialism.. „Sociology”. 39 (983), s. 983-999, 2005. DOI: 10.1177/0038038505058382. Cytat: In stark contrast to the official rhetoric of socialism, more common tropes today (...)are of the working class as useless, worthless and an obstacle to the ‘transition’ and of their spaces as grim, grey ghettos. This results not only in the
characterization of working-class communities as undeserving and intransigent, resting on the unearned laurels of socialism but also in renewed judgements of the embodied working class. In Poland, for example, parts of the working class
are labelled as ‘dresiarze’ (those who wear tracksuits or dresy) and ‘blokersi’ (those who live in tower blocks) to reductively frame the working class as tasteless and anonymous, yet somehow threatening..
Alison Stenning. Where is the Post-socialist Working Class? Working-Class Lives in the Spaces of (Post-)Socialism.. „Sociology”. 39 (983), s. 983-999, 2005. DOI: 10.1177/0038038505058382. Cytat: In stark contrast to the official rhetoric of socialism, more common tropes today (...)are of the working class as useless, worthless and an obstacle to the ‘transition’ and of their spaces as grim, grey ghettos. This results not only in the
characterization of working-class communities as undeserving and intransigent, resting on the unearned laurels of socialism but also in renewed judgements of the embodied working class. In Poland, for example, parts of the working class
are labelled as ‘dresiarze’ (those who wear tracksuits or dresy) and ‘blokersi’ (those who live in tower blocks) to reductively frame the working class as tasteless and anonymous, yet somehow threatening..
