Changing the mining industry in the heart of Silesia

4th Polish Mining Congress-Session: Human and environment facing the challenges of mining

生态环境科学;矿业工程

Lukaszczyk, Zygmunt^1 ; Popczyk, Marcin^2

Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelta 26-28, Zabrze

41-800, Poland^1

Faculty of Mining and Geology, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 2, Gliwice

44-100, Poland^2

关键词: Coal mining;    First World War;    Global reorganizations;    Political parties;    Technical progress;    Trade unions;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/174/1/012006/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/174/1/012006

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The development of coal mining in the Upper Silesian region began in the seventeenth century. Along with the development of this branch of industry, they began to form the new villages, towns and entire agglomerations in the surroundings. Even before the First World War the Polish mining industry employed over 150 thousand miners. This sector is characterized by a high degree of mechanization of work and technical progress. Miner profession from its inception was set on a pedestal by giving it a number of privileges. Mining industry introduced earliest pension and health insurance, and normalized length of the working day. Expansion of class consciousness, trade unions and political parties, resulted that the Silesia from the start was ahead of other mining and industrial regions at least by one generation. There have passed many generations from bloom years of mining to its current form of activity. At present, the global reorganization and restructuring of the industry hit also Polish mining industry.