Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of
Polish workers in Czechoslovakia 1945–1950

J 2020

Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia 1945–1950

DVOŘÁK, Tomáš

Basic information

Original name

Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia 1945–1950

Name in Czech

Mezi bratrskou pomocí a ekonomickým realismem. Zaměstnávání polských dělních v Československu v letch 1945–1950

Authors

DVOŘÁK, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Historia Slavorum Occidentis, Poznań, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2020, 2084-1213

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60101 History

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114720

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

pracovní síly; pracovní politika; zahraniční dělníci; československo-polské vztahy

Keywords in English

labour forces; foreign workers; labour policy; planned economy; Czechoslovak-Polish relations

Abstract

V originále

The paper deals with the topic of the employment of the Polish workers in post- -war Czechoslovakia. Analysed are mainly the features of the Czechoslovak workforce policy with some insight into the political context of the Czechoslovak-Polish relations. Despite the tensions, the employment of Polish citizens in Czechoslovak coal mines continued after the war in line with the laws of supply and demand. The advantages of the temporary border crossing, were enjoyed and quietly tolerated by both parties. First, with the start of the five- and six-year Plans in both countries, this development conformed with the demands of the centrally directed policy for the distribution of workforce stemming from a planned economy. From its very beginning, recruitment of Polish agricultural workers represented a method employed by the government in its attempt to cope with the permanent shortage of workers in the post-war Czechoslovak labour market. Just like the other emergency measures, it was accompanied by disproportions in economic costs. The influence of political symbols which were detrimental to the economy were also among the specific attributes of this arrangements. The development in both cases reveals a change in the economic as well as political thinking on the threshold of the communist rule.

Links

GA18-10694S, research and development project

Name: Pracovní politika a regulace pracovního trhu v Československu 1945-1953 (Acronym: pracovní síly)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

DVOŘÁK, Tomáš. Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia 1945–1950. Historia Slavorum Occidentis. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2020, vol. 2020, No 4, p. 101-131. ISSN 2084-1213.

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DVOŘÁK, Tomáš. Between fraternal help and economic realism. The employment of Polish workers in Czechoslovakia 1945–1950. \textit{Historia Slavorum Occidentis}. Pozna\'n: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2020, vol.~2020, No~4, p.~101-131. ISSN~2084-1213.

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