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Increase supply reduce demand and punish severely : a contextual history of meat in communist Poland / Maria Pasztor, Dariusz Jarosz ; translated by Alex Shannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pasztor, Maria, author.
- Jarosz, Dariusz, author.
- Series:
- Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ; Volume 37.
- Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ; Volume 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meat industry and trade--Poland--History.
- Meat industry and trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Peter Lang, [2020]
- Summary:
- A monograph on the social history of meat in Poland under the Communist regime (1945-1989). Based on an extensive archival research, which included the records of state institutions and the Communist party, the authors trace back the social and economic aspects of the production and circulation of meat in this period. They analyze, among other things, the problem political interventions into the meat economy in post-war Poland; abuses in meat trade, subjected to severe punishments including death; or the role of meat in the everyday life of Polish families. The dissatisfaction with shortages of meat products emerges as an immanent feature of Polish everyday life until 1989, often resulting in social unrest and becoming a popular theme of rumors and political jokes.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783631835098
- 3631835094
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