Dynamika kształtowania się regionów w Polsce południowej po drugiej wojnie światowej

Abstract

The author gives a characteristic of a series of studies carried on in the Chair of Economic Geography, which tend to reproduce specific features of S. Poland regional structure and of factors by the joint action of which that structure is taking shape. Studies on the territorial division of labour in correlation with the structure of industry and agriculture are the starting point of the team-work. A number of monographic researches state the decisive role of industry in the formation of the regional pattern of the Cracow Voivodeship. These studies reproduce the development of regional centres, their contribution to production and the progress of their urbanization (L. Pakuła and others). Contrasts of space structure, still incompletely adjusted by planned socialistic economy regulation, are to a certain extent levelled out by commutation, which is a specific feature in S. Poland. Detailed field investigations completing official statistical data have afforded to reproduce commutation in its territorial differenciation and its effect on various transformations in rural areas (J. Herma). New functions of urban and industrial centres in the formation of territorial division of labour by the increase in size of peasant-workers and workers’ categories are illustrated by indices, maps and cartograms which show: 1 — the amount of variation in the demographic, social and economic structures of settlements in newly formed microregions, 2 — correlations forming on separate territories between the professional, sex and age structures on one side and migration processes on the other. (T. Jarowiecka, W. Czarkowska). The impact of industry on the rural milieu, i. e. alterations in landtenure and production are investigated in systematic analyses of representative farm-steads. The above studies carried out in collaboration with State Planning Organs afforded a sound basis for a detailed regionalisation of Cracow Voivodeship (M. Dobrowolska) and for the estimation of surplus and shortage of labour supply according to communities (W. Czarkowska).