A Jan of all trades
A Jan of all trades
Author(s): Marta GruszeckaContributor(s): Iwona Reichardt (Translator)
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Kolegium Europy Wschodniej im. Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: Jan Wójcik; COVID-19; mask factories;
Summary/Abstract: When asked about his age, Jan Wójcik says he is a war-time baby. Indeed, he was born in 1943 in the small village of Nieczajna in southern Poland. After having finished school, Jan left home to start his education in a bigger town. He became a mechanic and got his first job in a steel factory in Kraków’s Nowa Huta metallurgy. At the time this was a new district on the city’s outskirts built by the communists for workers and their families. Its goal was to counter-balance Kraków’s bourgeois life. Jan later moved to other places and conducted his mandatory military service.
Journal: New Eastern Europe
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 04 (42)
- Page Range: 150-161
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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