A Poland-wide legislation on insurance in case of unemployment from 18th of July 1924, its amendments and functioning in the Silesian voivodship... Cover Image

A Poland-wide legislation on insurance in case of unemployment from 18th of July 1924, its amendments and functioning in the Silesian voivodship...
A Poland-wide legislation on insurance in case of unemployment from 18th of July 1924, its amendments and functioning in the Silesian voivodship...

Author(s): Maria Wanatowicz
Subject(s): History
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: unemployment insurance; legislation; the Sejm of the Republic of Poland; Silesian Voivodship; blue collar workers; industry and services

Summary/Abstract: Unemployment insurance introduced in Poland (also in the territory of the autonomous Silesian voivodship) by the ruling of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of July 18th 1924 was the first social insurance in the history directed at the unemployed. Firstly, it concerned only the blue-collar workers and, subsequently, also the white-collar ones. The role of such an insurance for the Silesian voivodship was significant (the article discusses only the unemployment insurance for blue-collar workers in Polish Silesia, because the unemployment of intelligentsia did not reach big numbers, even at the time of a big economic crisis), much bigger than in other districts of Poland dues to the industrial character of the voivodship's economy. Apart from the legal aspects of the unemployment insurance instituted in the region under study, the article also presents statistical data concerning the beneficiaries of the funds. The author discusses the unemployment insurance legislation from the perspective of the process of the unification of the country.

  • Issue Year: 7/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 56-72
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English