Solidarity by Alain Touraine, Franois Dubet, Michel Wieviork... - 9780521275958

SolidarityThe Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 19801981\nAuthor(s): Alain Touraine, Franois Dubet, Michel Wieviorka, Jan Strzelecki, David Denby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521275958, 978-0521275958\nSynopsis\nThis 1983 book records a fascinating analysis of the Solidarity movement in Poland. Alain Touraine here proposes an understanding of the place of social movements in contemporary society, and a fresh means of analysing them through 'sociological intervention'. In 1981 he and a team of researchers applied these research methods to the Solidarity movements. Groups of Solidarity activists were involved in a discourse over the nature and aims of their political and economic struggle. What emerges is a record of exceptional value in understanding the movement which transformed Polish society, placed firmly in the terms of the Solidarity activists' own understanding of their role, bu.