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UPPER-SILESIAN METAMORPHOSES. INDUSTRIAL REGION IN THE PROCESS OF RESTRUCTURING: FROM A FACTORY SETTLEMENT TO METROPOLIS? (Górnoslaskie metamorfozy. Region przemyslowy w procesie zmian: od osady fabrycznej do metropolii?

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Szczepanski M. S., Slezak-Tazbir W.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2009
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issue 4(195)
7-42
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The article was devoted to multidimensional changes to which Upper-Silesia has been subjected during two decades of transformation (1989-2009). They mostly consists in shifting the development of the region from industry to services sector. This type of changes also causes the regional social structure to be subjected to transformations. The number and significance of the working class, including mining, iron and steel industry workers, is decreasing and the middle class is gradually emerging. A mine and a foundry, icons of the old industrial region, are replaced by zonal firms, universities or colleges. A subtitle of the article refers, on the one hand, to one page of Józef Chalasinski's work in which he described national tensions in a factory settlement Kopalnia in 1934 (that is in Murcki - southern district of Katowice). On the other hand, the subtitle refers to Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Association, set up in 2007. It embraces 14 Silesian and industrial area cities, symbolizing arduous creation of a new social, spacial, ecological and economic quality. This is probably the decline of a traditional Silesian borderland region and the emergence of a mosaic region. The latter one combines heterogeneous societies of differentiated history and traditions, which have been located within the borders of Silesian region since 1999.
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