Sytuacja żeńskiej służby domowej w świetle poznańskiego czasopisma „Ruch Chrześcijańsko-Społeczny” (1902-1910)
The Situation of Female Domestic Servants in the Light of Poznan Magazine “Christian and Social Movement” (1902-1910)

Summary/Abstract: In 1891 Pope Leo XIII published the famous Encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’, which outlined the basis of Catholic social teaching. Following this document, priests began to engage in social action among working people. One such priest was the Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznan, Fr. Florian Oksza-Stablewski, the initiator of the “Christian and Social Movement” (19021910) – the first Polish scholarly journal devoted to social and economic issues. Involved in the development of this magazine were Fr. Kazimierz Zimmermann and Fr. Stanislaw Adamski, as well as the St. Wojciech printing and publishing house in Poznan in the person of its director, Fr. Peter Wawrzyniak. Writings on social issues were published in the magazine, and it supported the Catholic labor movement. Readers were encouraged to create Catholic workers’ unions and join their ranks. The spreading socialist movement was criticised and its anti-religiousness proclaimed. The magazine also strove against Jewish influence on Polish economic life. The creators of the periodical also took an interest in domestic service, especially involving women. The material, moral and health difficulties of this occupational group were discussed in the periodical. Female servants were encouraged to be interested in the Catholic women’s associations that were created for them, where they were guaranteed spiritual, material, medical and legal assistance. In this type of association, there were also schools for servants where they were taught reading and writing, religion, accounts, Polish history and all aspects of domestic work (cleaning, laundry, ironing, sewing, cooking, caring for farm animals and domestic birds) as well as work of other kinds

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