DWELLING AND LIVING IN THE IGS UNEMPLOYED MEMORIALS – THE YEARS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Abstract

The aim of the article is to signal the structural features of the housing and inhabiting of the unemployed in Poland during the Great Depression on the basis of their diaries published by the Institute of Social Economy in 1933. To achieve this goal, a conceptual apparatus derived from the concept of settlement infrastructure was used. This apparatus made it possible to distinguish features related to: the availability of housing and other forms of shelter, social and spatial accessibility of basic services, mainly municipal and social, as well as higher-order services and related social and spatial mobility issues of the unemployed in the inhabited space and the wider living space in search of work and social assistance. Selected fragments of diaries illustrating these issues testify to a large extent to the general social exclusion of the unemployed. In connection with the obtained results, a postulate was formulated to continue research on the diaries of the unemployed collected and published by the IGS after 2000.