Workers, Women, and Social Change in Poland, 1870–1939

The studies collected here deal with social and cultural changes in Polish lands during the early phases of industrialisation, i.e. the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention is first given to the stabilisation of urban agglomerations and workers communities, and the accompanying transformations in social status, family structure and collective life and culture of the workers. A particular focus is the time of the 1905-1907 revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, incorporated into tsarist Russia. In parallel with this, Professor Zarnowska has been concerned to examine the gender-determined inequalities of the life