Working-class and Memory Policy in Post-Industrial Cities

Łódź, Poland, and Tampere, Finland, Compared

Bibliographic Data

ID11212494
AuthorsMagdalena Rek‐woźniak (0000-0002-4526-5374, University of Lodz, corresponding author), Wojciech Woźniak (0000-0002-9720-6595, University of Lodz)
Year2020
Volume98
Pages5-21
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0147547920000125
OpenAlexW3109407334
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited1

Łódź and Tampere share an industrial and political past. Part of the Russian empire, the cities became major textile hubs crucial for Tsarist industrial economy. 1 The cities were also Red strongholds. Historically, they can be seen as socio-economic “experiments” and “islands of modernization” within largely rural societies. Since the 1980s (in case of Tampere) and the 1990s (in case of Łódź) both cities have undergone substantial social and economic transformations connected with the collapse or decline of traditional industries. How do the two cities choose to represent their working-class heritage today? This essay compares how city museums in Tampere and Łódź represent their working-class history in selective and contradictory ways

Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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