Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation / / Smith, Simon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783879503321
• Autore: Smith Simon <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-138-36287-5; 1-134-43263-1; 1-134-43264-X; 1-280-05531-6; 0-203-63395-4
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Collana: BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 306.2/094371
• Soggetti: Civil society - Czech Republic; Civil society - Slovakia; Civil society - Czechoslovakia; Post-communism - Czech Republic; Post-communism - Slovakia; Post-communism - Czechoslovakia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Transformation as modernisation: sociological readings / Simon Smith -- Civil society and political parties in the Czech Republic / Martin Myant -- Civic forum and public against violence: agents for community self-determination? Experiences of local actors / Simon Smith -- The development of the environmental non-governmental movement in Slovakia: the Slovak Union of Nature and Landscape Conservationists / Mikuláš Huba -- Dual identity and/or 'bread and butter': electronics industry workers in Slovakia 1995-2000 / Monika Čambáliková -- The democratisation of industrial relations in the Czech Republic - work organisation and employee representation: case studies from the electronics industry / Aleš Kroupa, Zdenka Mansfeldová -- Local community transformation: the Czech Republic 1990-2000 / Zdenka Vajdová -- Civic potential as a differentiating ; factor in the development of local communities / Martin Slosiarik -- Group strategies of local communities in Slovakia facing social threats / Imrich Vašečka -- ; Conclusion: The narrativisation of social transformation / Simon Smith.
• Sommario/riassunto: Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of life. Although a great deal has been written about transformation, much of it has been about transformation viewed from the top, and little has been written about how things have changed for ordinary people at the local level. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the changes resulting from transformation at the local level in the form Czechoslovakia. It considers especially local democracy, social movements, and work collectives, and paints a picture of people gradually growing in self-confidence and taking more control of their communities, having lived for decades in a framework where so much was directed from the top.