| dc.description.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). | en_EN |
