The role of national minorities in the economic growth of the city of Łódź until the Second World War
Abstract
The creation of multicultural Łódź was a complex and longlasting process.
It is commonly known that Łódź had grown into to a large city in the
19th century owing to the textile industry. The economic and demographic
growth of this city was extremelly dynamic, comparable only with the development
of the so called ‘mushroom-cities’ in the USA. This development
was considerably (in some respects essentially) influenced by representatives
of other nationalities who, beside Polish people, largely defined its specific
character.
The history of Łódź, for more than 100 years the second largest city
in Poland and until the 1890s the largest industry centre in Poland, can
be traced back to the beginning of the 14th century. However, until the
1820s, Łódź was a small town living by agriculture, trade and handicraft. Its
industrial carrier had begun from the resolution of Kingdom of Poland governor
on the 18th of September 1820, in which Łódź was nominated – among
many other cities – for the textile settlement. This event had determined its
unusual carrier and a very dynamic development in the 19th and early 20th
centuries.
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