On Two Modernities of the Polish Automotive Industry: The Case of Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych and Its Staff (1948–2011)

• Authors: Mariusz Jastrząb , Joanna Wawrzyniak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

Focusing on the history of the Polish main car factory, the FSO, the paper examines two modernisation waves in the country’s automotive industry: the socialist Government’s purchase of a license from the Italian Fiat in the 1960s and the acquisition of the factory by the Daewoo Corporation in the 1990s. The history of the FSO as an enterprise shows, above all, the pitfalls of dependent development. It has, however, resulted in the training of a class of specialists and engineers for whom the implementation of foreign technologies and management cultures presented opportunities for self-advancement, redefinitions of their identity, along with reconsiderations of the value and meaning of work.

Keywords

PL

passenger cars; automotive industry; Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych (FSO); Fiat; Daewoo; Poland; socialism; capitalism; transformation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 115

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-11-24

Contributors

author

Mariusz Jastrząb

author

Joanna Wawrzyniak

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/APH.2017.115.02