Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982

Book Overview

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 d tente and workers' rights, between Atlantic cold warriors and European cooperation. It provides new insights relevant to historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739150707
• ISBN13: 9780739150702
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"