The interviews however, both the extended excerpts and the author's discussion of them, are quite interesting, and cannot be adequately summarized in a short review.The analysis that follows is subtle: rather than reaching general conclusions, the study focuses on differences within the working-class experiences, between the skilled and unskilled, younger and older generations, between collective and individual orientations. In explaining workers' response to change, it also presents a convincing synthesis between past analyses of postcommunist workers focused on the ideological and institutional legacies of the communist period with more current studies that have emphasized the structural impact of Poland's insertion into the global capitalist system.Contemporary Sociology 42, 3, Stephen Crowley
