Published: 2013-01-01

Mikroświat kamienicy czynszowej doby zaborów. Funkcjonowanie i życie w warszawskich kamienicach w źródłach z lat 1864–1914

Aleksander Łupienko

Abstract

The Warsaw tenement houses were of vital importance in a large city as, apart from functioning as dwellings, they fulfilled a function of delivering a shelter for productive and cultural activities, as well as for national conspiracy against the Russian rulers. There is a clear need for research on the inner “life” of such a structure, which at that time (1864–1914) was very dynamic. As there was virtually no private service companies and not enough public service of hostile Russian authorities, the needs of a single tenement house (a large structure giving shelter to up to a few hundred people) had to be satisfied by many private door-to-door servicemen and numerous domestic servants. Although people of different classes met in such a house, there was almost no social integration of the better-off tenants. Only the domestic servants (often village girls, newcomers to the city), poorer tenants and their children integrated in the yard, in the gate and on the shared corridors of the house

Keywords:

tenement houses, yards, flats, social history of the 19th century

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Łupienko, A. (2013). Mikroświat kamienicy czynszowej doby zaborów. Funkcjonowanie i życie w warszawskich kamienicach w źródłach z lat 1864–1914. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 11, 117–134. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/jue/article/view/656

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