Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of ex-miners, former factory workers, impoverished farmers, and collective farm work [...]
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The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of ex-miners, former factory workers, impoverished farmers, and collective farm workers. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helplessness that have become powerful tropes in Polish journalism and academic writing, Tomasz Rakowski traces the ways in which people actively reconfigure their lives, creating new kinds of semi-legal workplaces, and grappling with the loss of their former status and privileges.