Przemiany w strukturze społeczno-zawodowej ludności wiejskiej pod wpływem nowych inwestycji przemysłowych (na przykładzie Rybnickiego Okręgu Węglowego)

Abstract

In the paper the author concerned herself with the changes occurring in the socio-professional structure of the rural population, considering them as a coefficient of economic and social urbanization. As an example she cited the changes which her taken place under the impact of industrial development in the Rybnik Coal Basin. The effect of the new coking coal mine established at Wilchwy manifested itself in a hightened degree of professional activity, leading up to an ever increasing differentation in the structure of employment, in which extrarural employment takes up a constantly growing share. As shown by this representative research work, in the village situated in the hinterland of the mines the industrialization and urbanization processes are going on simultaneously upon many planes. These villages become more and more a sort of suction pump, absorbing a great many new arrivals who come to settle then sometimes even deserting the town where they had previously lived.