ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a completely new topic, namely, the topic of enterprises’ monuments. Like every social group (ethnic, national), enterprises also have their own monuments. In this chapter I looked at several dozen monuments erected by enterprises in communist-era Poland. This kind of monuments were often created as a result of cooperation between enterprises and artists. I have shown that these minor architectural works were of great importance in shaping the identity of communist enterprises. On the one hand, they consolidated the current identity (statues of people connected with the enterprise, purpose-built structures referring to important events or to the activity profile of the enterprises or their products, as well as to signs, trademarks, and symbols), and on the other, they changed the identity and created a new one (abstract structures and statues of patrons). The final (twelfth) chapter of this section, authored by Elizabeth Carnegie, also presents some past meanings, perhaps even more unwelcome than those of the old factory monuments.
