{"product_id":"limiting-privilege-agata-zysiak-9781612498829","title":"Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland","description":"State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities--all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. \u003ci\u003eLimiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland\u003c\/i\u003e traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Lź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, \u003ci\u003eLimiting Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Agata Zysiak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1612498825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612498829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Purdue University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Agata Zysiak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245189296383,"sku":"9781612498829","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07ff4826-9145-4b4a-92fd-f84473bfd2a6.jpg?v=1693926642","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/limiting-privilege-agata-zysiak-9781612498829","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}