1.
Jarska, Natalia
Unemployment in State Socialism: An Insight into the Understanding of Work in 1950s Poland Book Chapter
In: Siefert, Marsha (Ed.): Labor in State Socialist Europe after 1945: Contributions to to a History of Work, pp. 27-47, 2019.
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2.
Jarska, Natalia
Female Breadwinners in State Socialism: The Value of Women’s Work for Wages in Post-Stalinist Poland Journal Article
In: Contemporary European History, vol. 4, pp. 469-483, 2019.
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3.
Jarska, Natalia
The Periphery Revisited: Polish Post-war Historiography on the Working Class and the New Global Labour History Journal Article
In: European Review of History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 45-60, 2018.
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4.
Guzowski, Piotr
The Role of Enforced Labour in the Economic Development of Church and Royal Estates in 15th and 16th-century Poland Book Chapter
In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta (Ed.): Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th-18th centuries, pp. 216-234, 2014.
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5.
Guzowski, Piotr
The Peasant Land Market in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Book Chapter
In: Béaur, Gerard (Ed.): Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th–20th Centuries), pp. 219–237, 2013.
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6.
Guzowski, Piotr
The influence of exports on grain production on Polish royal demesne farms in the second half of the sixteenth century Journal Article
In: Agricultural History Review, vol. 59, pp. 312-327, 2011.
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2019
Jarska, Natalia
Unemployment in State Socialism: An Insight into the Understanding of Work in 1950s Poland Book Chapter
In: Siefert, Marsha (Ed.): Labor in State Socialist Europe after 1945: Contributions to to a History of Work, pp. 27-47, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, poland, socialism, unemployment
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Jarska, Natalia
Female Breadwinners in State Socialism: The Value of Women’s Work for Wages in Post-Stalinist Poland Journal Article
In: Contemporary European History, vol. 4, pp. 469-483, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, gender, poland, public opinion, socialism, sociology
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2018
Jarska, Natalia
The Periphery Revisited: Polish Post-war Historiography on the Working Class and the New Global Labour History Journal Article
In: European Review of History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 45-60, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, global labour history, historiography, poland, socialism, working class
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2014
Guzowski, Piotr
The Role of Enforced Labour in the Economic Development of Church and Royal Estates in 15th and 16th-century Poland Book Chapter
In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta (Ed.): Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th-18th centuries, pp. 216-234, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, economic development, medieval history, poland, serfdom
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booktitle = {Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th-18th centuries},
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2013
Guzowski, Piotr
The Peasant Land Market in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Book Chapter
In: Béaur, Gerard (Ed.): Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th–20th Centuries), pp. 219–237, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, medieval history, poland, property relations
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2011
Guzowski, Piotr
The influence of exports on grain production on Polish royal demesne farms in the second half of the sixteenth century Journal Article
In: Agricultural History Review, vol. 59, pp. 312-327, 2011.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, economic development, poland
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