God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

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Map 5. Industrialization, (c. 1900)

some 800 men earning up to 90 groszy per week (at a time when an entire ox cost
less than 60 grozy). Free funerals were provided at the King's expense.^5
In this same period, the iron industry was also well established. At Wachock
on the Kamienna River in 1179, the founding charter of the Cistercian abbey
mentions the abbot's rights to all mineral deposits; and it was here that, under