Made by Polish Comrades. The Stories of Czech Industrial Objects and Polish Guest Workers in Interrelated Perspective
| Provider | Czech Science Foundation |
| Programme | Standard projects |
| Project code | 19-12941S |
| Participants | Faculty of Social Sciences Charles University |
The project deals with the topic of “guest” workers from Communist Poland in Czechoslovakia, as well as industrial objects that they built and/or in which they worked. The aim is to write hisotrical “biographies” of selected industrial objects (power plants, textile factories, sugar plants etc.) that served as the flagships of the Czechoslovak – Polish cooperation. After 1989, however, these objects widely lost their “glory” and often also their material existence. The biographies of the objects will be told from both the Czech (archives, literature, oral history) and the former Polish workers´ perspective, so that the objects themselves open up to multiple “memories”. By discovering diverse meanings that these objects have for different people in different times I will enhance understanding of society under state socialism and post-communist transformation in East Central Europe. At the same time, I aim to shed light on the scope and character of mostly unknown phenomenon of Polish “guest” labor in Czechoslovakia.
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Mgr. Ondřej Klípa, Ph.D.
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