Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2021
Abstract
Polish workers (the vast majority of women) formed the largest group of foreign workers in communist Czechoslovakia. The textile industry in the north and east of Bohemia in particular would not be able to function without their work.
For young Polish women, working abroad was an opportunity not only for higher earnings, but also for emancipation. The result was a high number of marriages with the Czechs.
The article deals mainly with the ways in which Polish workers responded to the severe shortage of labor in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and how they were able to use this situation to their advantage in both the economic and social field.