ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the development and the specifics of the Polish shipbuilding industry in the second half of the twentieth century. The main focus is on the production regime 1 and workers’ conflicts in the Gdańsk Shipyard 2 in the 1970s and 1980s. The extant literature on the Polish shipbuilding industry after 1945 is quite limited, and focuses mainly on the structural and economic history of the sector. 3 The topics of workers, workers’ culture, and labour relations are almost absent. 4 Given this, this chapter attempts to complete what is up to now an unfinished jigsaw puzzle as well as tracing the yard’s troubles through to the present day.
