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SUMMARY: The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of
  Polish lands in the long 19th century - Piotr Koryś (University of Warsa
 w)
DTSTART:20170522T120000Z
DTEND:20170522T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In the year 1795 Poland ceased to exist. It was partitioned in
 to three parts: Prussian\, Russian and Austrian. One of the last "late-feu
 dal" European states disappeared. The foundation of economy of Poland was 
 agricultural sector\, and rural\, peasant labor force consisted mostly of 
 serfs. I will\nshow the occupational structure of Polish lands in late 18t
 h/early 19th century and its evolution during 19th century (on regional le
 vel). Finally\, the occupational structure of Polish lands before the outb
 reak of WWI was similar to the labor structures of other European industri
 alizing peripheries. The analyzed territory is limited to the territory of
  Duchy of Warsaw and Austrian Western Galicia (then German province Posen\
 , Russian Congress Kingdom of Poland and Austrian Western Galicia). This i
 s the territory continuously inhabited by Polish ethnic majority\, contrar
 y to most of other territories included into interwar and contemporary Pol
 ish borders.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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