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This article focuses on the social consequences of the liquidation of state farms in Poland in the 1990s. The creation and operation of state-owned farms was an unprecedented experiment: state farms were a ‘laboratory’, both in the economic sphere (creating a collective economy) and in the social sphere, forming a collective community, largely isolated from much of rural society, functioning within the framework of assigned patterns of work and life. With the collapse of communism in Poland (1989) and the construction of a market economy, the existence of 1,440 state-owned agricultural enterprises (managing 18.7% of the agricultural area in Poland) was questioned. A decision was made in 1991 to liquidate state-owned farms, by virtue of a relevant Act. Their employees (about half a million of them) and their families (in total about two million people) became victims of the economic transformation, for whom the state did not provide appropriate support, leaving them to themselves. The experience of losing a job and lifestyle organized by the socialist system (especially social security) became a traumatic experience for this community. This article shows the social dimension of this political decision. It also gives a voice to former employees of these farms, who never had any proper representation and were treated as ‘people without a vote’.

Dismantling The State Farm System and its Communities in Poland During the 1990s, and its Social Consequences