„Kobieta a wiek XX”. Wyzwania, cele i oczekiwania kobiet wielkoprzemysłowej Łodzi przełomu wieków
‘Women and the 20th Century’: The Challenges, Goals, and Expectations of women in Industrial Łódź

Author(s): Marta Sikorska
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: history of Łódź; history of women; women's work; workers
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the situation of women who lived in the large-industrial Łódź at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Łódź was a city of many cultures, inhabited primarily by Poles, Germans and Jews, and was undergoing modernization processes. In the rapidly developing city, thousands of women from various social classes and nationalities entered the labor market. The article presents the professional and social problems that women faced at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in an industrial city.

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