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Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities.Builds upon a vast amount of new research dataExamines how households try to sustain their livelihoods at particularly dramatic and difficult times of urban transformationProvides a major contribution to how we theorize the geographies of neo-liberalismOffers a conclusion which informs discussions of social policy within European Union enlargement

Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities.: Builds upon a vast amount of new research data; Examines how households try to sustain their livelihoods at particularly dramatic and difficult times of urban transformation; Provides a major contribution to how we theorize the geographies of neo-liberalism; Offers a conclusion which informs discussions of social policy within European Union enlargement.

In reflecting on two recent popular representations of Poland's working-class communities and ongoing work in one particular community in southern Poland, this article explores a range of literatures that locate working-class communities in both socialism and post-socialism. It draws attention to the dualities of representation of these working-class communities and seeks to explain these representations, connecting the specificities of the post-socialist world to wider social and economic shifts. Building on the 'new working-class studies' and other recent interpretations of working-class lives and cultures, it invokes alternative accounts of working-class lives after socialism, which move beyond the dualities identified, and seeks to reinscribe class as important in the discourses and materialities of post-socialism, East and West.

This article reports on an ongoing research project which explores the remaking of life and work in Nowa Huta, a steel town built as Poland's first socialist city. It focuses on the changing relationship between work and community in Nowa Huta using both qualitative research material and secondary data sources. It locates the study in the context of both recent debates over the 'end of work' and previous accounts of work-community relationships in old industrial regions, but argues that the specific experiences of socialism shaped a particular relationship between work and community. In such contexts, the 'end of work' is coupled with the 'end of socialism' to figure a double ending for some communities. The article documents the changing place of work in Nowa Huta, recognizing the impacts of the loss and restructuring of employment but also drawing attention to the continuing importance of work in shaping lives in Nowa Huta.

A review essay on books by (1) Iliana Zloch-Christy (Ed), Eastern Europe and the World Economy: Challenges of Transition and Globalization (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998); (2) Bela Greskovits The Political Economy of Protest and Patience: East European and Latin American Transformations Compared (Budapest: Central European U Press, 1998); & (3) Laszlo Andor & Martin. Summers, Market Failures: A Guide to Eastern Europe's "Economic Miracle" (London: Pluto, 1998). These books investigate the effects of globalization on & the political economic transformation in former-Soviet nations in Central & Eastern Europe. Greskovits's study of why Central & Eastern European nations have not protested against the costs of political economic transformation as did Latin American nations during the 1980s is criticized for not analyzing the aforementioned effects in the former USSR & Yugoslavia & for overlooking nonvisible forms of protest & resistance to such transformations. Zloch-Christy's edited collection examines the connection between political economic transition & globalization in former Soviet nations is criticized for several contributors' tendency to simply review previous policy & its capacity to achieve the objectives of political economic transition. Andor & Summers are applauded for emphasizing the impact that globalization & transformation has had on small-scale economic policy & for exploring the connection between neoliberalism & the former Yugoslavian state's dissolution. It is contended that these texts illustrate the difficulty of theorizing about policies that are likely to remain incomplete for some time. Ultimately, all three texts are commended for addressing the status of Central & Eastern European nations in relation to the global economy. 2 References. J. W. Parker

AbstractThe concept of intergenerational fairness has taken hold across Europe since the 2008 financial crisis. In the United Kingdom (UK), focus on intergenerational conflict has been further sharpened by the 2016 'Brexit' vote to take the UK out of the European Union. However, current debates around intergenerational fairness are taking place among policy makers, the media and in think-tanks. In this way, they are conversations about, but not with, people. This article draws on qualitative interviews with 40 people aged 19–85 years and living in North-East England and Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city, to explore whether macro-level intergenerational equity discourses resonate in people's everyday lives. We find widespread pessimism around young people's prospects and evidence of a fracturing social contract, with little faith in the principles of intergenerational equity, equality and reciprocity upon which welfare states depend. Although often strong, the kin contract was not fully ameliorating resentment and frustration among participants observing societal-level intergenerational unfairness mirrored within families. However, blame for intergenerational inequity was placed on a remote state rather than on older generations. Despite the precariousness of the welfare state, participants of all ages strongly supported the principle of state support, rejecting a system based on family wealth and inherited privilege. Rather than increased individualism, participants desired strengthened communities that encouraged greater intergenerational mixing.

Voices from the trueque: barter networks resistance to neoliberalism in Argentina / Pete North -- Confounding neoliberalism: priests, privatization and social justice in the Peruvian Andes / Elizabeth Olson -- Travelling neoliberalism: Polish and Ghanaian migrant workers in London / Jon May [and others] -- Neoliberalization and its discontents: the experience of working poverty in Manchester / Vincent Pattison -- Bargaining with the devil: neoliberalization, informal work and workers' resistance in the clothing industry of Turkey / Ergül Ergün -- Transitions to work and the making of neoliberal selves: growing up in (the former) East Germany / Kathrin Horschelmann -- The emergence of a working poor: labour markets, neoliberalization and diverse economies in post-socialist cities / Adrian Smith [and others] -- Difference without dominance: social justice and the (neoliberal) economy in urban development / Colin Marx -- Conclusion: Neoliberalization, social justice and resistance / Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, and Katie Willis.