‘Frenchmen’ in Polish Mines: The Politics of Productivity in Coal Mining in Poland 1946–1948
Journal: Europe Asia Studies
Year: 2018

Frenchmen' in Polish mines. The politics of productivity in coal mining in Poland 1946-48During the years 1946-48, a period of economic recovery in post war Poland, a government sponsored repatriation program resulted in over 40,000 Polish nationals returning to Poland from a number of West European countries.In the large picture of population movements after the war this was not an exceptionally big group, one which is dwarfed by the re-location to Poland of over one million Polish nationals wh