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Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982

Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982

Amicis, Nino De
Goddeeris, Idesbald
Berger, Stefan

Hardcover

Series: Harvard Cold War Studies Book

Eastern European HistoryGeneral European HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0739150707
ISBN13: 9780739150702
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 26 2010
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's underground activity in the subsequent years. In many countries, campaigns were set up in order to spread information, raise funds, and provide the Polish opposition with humanitarian relief and technical assistance. Labor movements especially stepped into the limelight. A number of Western European unions were concerned about the new international tension following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the new hard-line policy of the US and saw Solidarnosc as a political instrument of clerical and neo-conservative cold warriors.

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