Browsing by Subject "tradition"

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Hidden resources? Households' strategies for maintaining control over food: between continuity and discontinuity
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Bachórz, Agata
This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety and the meaning of food, as applied by people in Poland. Using material gathered by interviewing representatives of two generations, the paper analyses the bottom-up, scattered and intra-family solutions woven into the structure of everyday life. Although alternative food networks and food activism are emerging nowadays as an important area of criticism towards contemporary food production and supply, the paper goes back to the choices made within the mainstream food system. Although the interviewees could be classified as middle-class and for this reason are expected to eagerly adapt to new lifestyle patterns, the research material allows one to focus not only on the novelty in people’s culinary choices, but above all – on the continuity. Forms of domestic cooking and buying provisions for the household – as embodied skills based on physical work and time available – are interpreted in the light of contemporary food distrust. The similarities between late modern and traditional mechanisms of maintaining trust are analysed, showing how different layers overlap, shaping a mix of traditional and modern forms.
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Konsorcjum PRGiBSz SA - z tradycją w przyszłość
(2007) Szebesta, Marek; Grzybowski, Wiesław
The Consortium of Polish enterprises for underground works and shaft sinking Join-stock company is originated from the tradition of the old Companies of Mining Works, which tasks were to build and extend coal mines. In the article, there is presented the actual organizational structure of the Consortium from the aspect of changes and historical transformations. The aim of the activities is joining knowledge and experience connected with realisation of various complicated underground and surface works in one subject. It is reflected in the actual economical condtion of the joint-stock company - after the crisis, which has lasted in the mining trade lately. The examples of works, which were done and these ones, which are still making show the engineering, hardware and technological potential of the company. Numerous prizes and honours prove that our Consortium heads for the right direction of the activities that are taken in order to make the modern and well-developing company. Our company has its roots in the mining tradition and it's the base for the realisation of the overriding aim that is fulfiling customers and crew's expectations, making them satisfied and willing to constant improving.