workers issue, strike, Ostrava-Karviná mining district, businessmen, mineowners, mining companies, mining, metallurgy

The Ostrava-Karviná mining district concentrated an enormous number of workers, especially in mining, metallurgy and the textile industry. The numerous working class was a relatively restless part of the population, as is testified by the number and size of strikes which took place in this region, especially at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Literature of Marxist origin accredited this fact to the bad policy of separate businessmen towards the working class. Today?s research concieves this issue as a more complex interaction of many factors.