It is very hard to write one article about all the processes and conditions connected with the situation of polish workers. In this article I will try to present the most important matters diving them into several groups of ceratin topics.
Constitutional transformation and the privatisation of companies
During the revolution of 1980/81 workers demanded to create companies of workers' councils. This condition was thought to be necessary not only for making the economical reform work but also a method to humanize the workplaces and emancipate the individual. The researcher of "Solidarnosc" movement Alain Touraine stated that the language of polish workers at that time was not very different from the one of the workers from the West who in fact were working in the terms of "law of efficiency and profit". "Socialist and capitalist states - he wrote in 1982 - differ or are even opposite to each other in matters of carrying out social changes and processes of industrialization but talking about the measure of the same kind of industrialized society they have the same class structures, putting the workers on the opposite sides, those with the power, qualifications, experiences and their group solidarity, organizers to those who are managers demanding to be efficient, dictating the conditions and the rhythm of work, the system of payments, those who exploit others." The workers' councils were to completely change that system of exploitation. "Solidarnosc" trade union appealed in 1981 to all the parts of the union to "support and help in creating the workers' councils" independent to "the state administration, political organisations and trade unions."
