KLASA ROBOTNICZA W TLE INNYCH KLAS
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1998
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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WORKING CLASS IN POLAND IN RELATION TO OTHER CLASSES
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This is an empirical study aimed to pick up recent changes in social location of the workmg
class in stratification ladder. I put it in the context of discussion on “death of social classes”, which
revived in the 1990s in world sociology. Drawing on data from national random samples, which
come from surveys carried out in 1982 - 1995, I attempt to determine to what extent economic
distances and mobility barriers between workers and other basic socio-occupational strata persist
over time, despite systemic transformations going on in Poland. Results show that in the Polish
case the “manual - non-manual” dichotomy still exists. In hierarchy of incomes, the gap between
workers and non-manual strata even widened. As regards mobility barriers, they remained basically
intact. In conclusion, I draw certain analogies between Poland and capitalist societies, saying
that in the 1990s social stratification in Polish society tends to approach patterns typical for
contemporary capitalism.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 60, 1998, z. 3-4, s. 373-395