Grembach – etnograficzny przewodnik po łódzkim osiedlu
Grembach. An Ethnographic Guide to a Łódź Housing Estate

Author(s): Grażyna Ewa Karpińska, Aleksandra Krupa-Ławrynowicz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: workers' housing estate; “Ariadna” Widzew Sewing Thread Factory; Niciarka; Juliusz Kunitzer; Łódź workers’ family houses (famuły); Widzew workers; factory housing estate; Grembach
Summary/Abstract: “Grembach. An Ethnographic Guide to a Łódź Housing Estate” in Łódź is the first such detailed presentation of an area of Łódź that has not yet been the subject of a dedicated study. The name Grembach refers to the workers' housing estate established towards the end of the 19th century in the then village of Widzew located on the outskirts of Łódź. Life in the Grembach was associated above all with the sewing thread factory built there which offered people work, flats in the factory housing estate and organized their leisure time. In the guidebook, we take the reader on a tour around the estate where workers once built “their” world. Its existing image has been reconstructed on the basis of photographs, archival documents and the memories of several generations of residents. We follow the footprints left behind by Grembach workers which transport us back in time to what was once here. We trace recollections of the past couched in historical accounts to recreate the lives of workers in the interwar period and in the years of the Polish People's Republic (PRL).

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