Rozwój przemysłu w Polsce Ludowej

Abstract

Industrial development in the 25 years' period of People's Poland was closely connected with the general economic and social rebuilding of the country. Nationalization of great and medium industry opened sources of financing economic development i.e.: sources of accumulation of means for industrialization of the country. Peculiar disproportion between man power and productive assets, that occurred after the Second World War, made impossible an appropriate use of manpower resources. In the years 1946 - 1969 notable investment outlays that amounted to 880 million zloties in the prices for the year 1961 were provided for industry. In the process of industrialization deep social and class changes should be noticed besides strictly economic effects. They include first of all the growth of industrial worker class whose share in the total population structure outnumbers economically active farmers and the growth of the number of educated people and their rapprochement with the working-class, which is very essential. All the processes were accompanied simultaneously with a constant increase in qualifications of the population groups, a growing similarity in their way of living and with the coalescing of whole social groups.