Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation

Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Herausgeber: Smith, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the changes resulting from transformation at the local level in the former Czechoslovakia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781138362871
• ISBN-10: 1138362875
• Artikelnr.: 53693092

Autorenporträt

Simon Smith is a research lecturer in the Centre for Contemporary European Studies at the University of Paisley. His current research interests cover civil society, collective action, local culture, and local and regional government in Central and Eastern Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Transformation as Modernisation: Sociological Readings of Post-Communist
Lifeworlds 2. Civil Society and Political Parties in the Czech Republic 3.
Civic Forum and Public Against Violence: Agents for Community
Self-Determination? Experiences of Local Actors 4. The Development of the
Environmental Non-Governmental Movement in Slovakia: The Slovak Union of
Nature and Landscape Conservationists 5. Dual Identity and/or 'Bread and
Butter': Electronics Industry Workers in Slovakia 1995-2000 6. The
Democratisation of Industrial Relations in the Czech Republic: Work
Organisation and Employee Representation: Case Studies from the Electronics
Industry 7. Local Community Transformation: The Czech Republic 1990-2000 8.
Civic Potential as a Differentiating Factor in the Development of Local
Communities 9. Group Strategies of Local Communities in Slovakia Facing
Social Threats 10. Conclusion: The Narrativisation of Social Transformation