Cultural contradictions of post-Fordism in the context of the transformation of European peripheries through the prism of the class of subcontractors
Cultural contradictions of post-Fordism in the context of the transformation of European peripheries through the prism of the class of subcontractors

Summary/Abstract: The presented paper deals with the basic issues, dilemmas and social and culturalcontradictions in the Polish transformation process against the background of Central andEastern Europe, the processes of the establishment and development of new states andnations as well as the new markets. The author views these problems through the light of theemergence of a broad class of subcontractors in a turbulent environment and the new modesof production, which are a result of changes in the structure of human labour introducedby post-Fordism (in its final stage, lean management) and postmodernity. The author alsoanalyzes the social change as a consequence of social relations resulting from exchangingthe life chances of the actors for the class-conditioned market opportunities in the existingsocial and political situation (conjoncture) and at the present stage of transformation at themoment when the emergent markets get shaped and mature. The study makes use of thehermeneutic method, which is finding out the essence of the present phase of transformationthrough the light of new concepts against the background of the historical-comparativeanalysis. The present article is not aimed at ordering reality but it is an inspiration forstudies and for approaching transformation in accordance with a new conceptual apparatusof social sciences, sociology, management and political economy.

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