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Striped Power - The Świętokrzyski Art Weaving

Life of cooperative

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Mainly women were employed in Świętokrzyskie weaving (men constituted 10% of the employees).

The number of employees increased all the time for example in 1955 45 people worked, including 36 full time workers and 9 out-workers, in 1980 the firm was employing 162 people, including 132 full time workers and 30 out workers.

Every worker of the weaving mill should have been at the same time a shareholder member of cooperative and was taken in by the board of trustees  after a year of work.