From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity 1897-1994

• Druk: Łódź, 2018
• Autor: Agata Zysiak, Jacek Burski, Kaja Kaźmierska, Kamil Piskała, Kamil Śmiechowski, Wiktor Marzec
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

The city greeted newcomers with mysterious “characteristic, dirty fog on the horizon, which constantly hangs above the capital of chimneys.” Directly after arrival “the smoke wrapped [newcomers] in some impenetrable, due to its sultriness, atmosphere”. Gradually, from this “gigantic cloud of smoke” surfaced “a forest of brick chimneys emerging to the sky” and with “a proud hatred throwing to the sky smoke, fire and ashes”, creating “an impression that a legion of blazing volcanoes embraced the proletarian city.” Entry to this urban area from the rural surrounding stimulated fascination and repulsion. It triggered the state of shock.

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• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-8142-103-4
• ISBN druku: 978-83-8142-102-7
• Liczba stron: 318

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Acknowledgments	9
List of Tables	11
List of Illustrations	13

Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Kaja Kaźmierska, Wiktor Marzec, Introduction	17
There Is a City in Europe	19
Translocal Modernity	21
Printed Modernity	24
Journey through a Century	27
The Structure and Content of the Modern Discourse	31

Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Wiktor Marzec, The Beginnings: Entrance to the Industrial World 1897–1914	37
The Promised Land in the Mud	37
From Othering to Condemnation	45
Re-imaging the City	52
Harmonious Modernity and Urban Self-assertion	56
The Dream of a Proper Infrastructure	62
Calling for Institutions	66
Inventing Welfare	73
Educating the Masses	82
Envisioning Urban Citizenship	84
Ethnicizing the Economy	88
Forging Modernity – Conclusion 	98

Kamil Piskała, The Interwar: Democratic Politics and Modern City between Two World Wars 1918–1923 	101
The Decline of the “Polish Manchester”	101
The Years of War: the Economic Collapse and Political Liberalization	102
Democratic Politics and the Press in the Independent State	106
From Class Warfare to the Modernization Program	110
The Visions of a Metropolis and Municipal Socialism	118
Rhetorical Shifts	121
Against the “Philosophy of the Crowd”	128
National Capitalism	132
Antisemitism as a Social Critique	135
From Antisemitism to Political Mobilization	145
Class or Nation?	149
The Crisis of Modernization and European Civil War – Conclusion	153

Agata Zysiak, Kamil Piskała, The Postwar: Social Justice for the Proletarian City? 1945–1949	161
New Reality	161
New Worldwide Order	162
Postwar Cinderella	165
New Scope of Press Influence	170
Tempting Visions in Hard Times	176
Rhetoric of Appeasement	180
Patterns of Legitimization: Dark Past and Bright Future	184
Working Classes and Everyday Life	187
Towards a Functionalist City	192
Osiedle and beyond	195
Planning	200
Metropolitan Dreams and a Wake-up Call	206
From Modest Modernization to Socialist City – Conclusion	212

Kamil Śmiechowski, Jacek Burski, Transition: The Postindustrial Orphan in Neoliberal Poland 1989–1994	217
Re-inventing the City	217
The Socialist-Style American Dream	219
Shock and Helplessness	227
New Press and New Politics	232
The Market as a Principle of Social Organization	239
City in Crisis	242
Projects of Breaking Through	246
Bringing Capitalism back in – Conclusion 	253

Agata Zysiak, Kaja Kaźmierska, Wiktor Marzec, A City Lost in Space in a Country Lost in Time – Conclusion	257
Struggling with the Modern Challenge	257
City from Cotton and Smoke	261
The Press is Back in Town	264
Narratives of Modernity 	266

Methodological Appendix	271
Primary Sources Covered	275
Reference list	277
Index of Names	299
List of Contributors	307