From Cotton and Smoke: Lź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897-1994 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788323344889)

JACEK BURSKI, sociologist, is a research assistant at the Department of Sociology of Culture at the University of Lź; he is preparing a PhD thesis about the social world of football fans in Poland.

KAJA KAŹMIERSKA is a sociologist. An associate professor, she is the director of the Institute of Sociology and head of the Department of the Sociology of Culture at the University of Lź. Her research interests include: biographical analysis, collective/national identity and memory, migration, borderland identity formation, European identity formation, the sociological analysis of civil society organization activities, and studies on Jewish identity.

WIKTOR MARZEC holds a PhD in sociology and social anthropology from the Central European University in Budapest, an MA in sociology, and an MA in philosophy from the University of Lź. His research interests concern historical sociology, labor history, and conceptual history.

KAMIL PISKALA is a historian and holds a PhD in contemporary Polish history. He graduated from the University of Lź in 2017. His research interests are focused on the history of labor movements and socialist ideology in the twentieth century, people's history, and political ideas.

KAMIL ŚMIECHOWSKI is a historian. He holds a PhD in the history of Poland, and graduated from the University of Lź in 2013. He works as an associate professor at the Institute of History and is the secretary of the Interdisciplinary Urban Studies Center, the University of Lź. His research interests are focused on urban theory, analyses of press discourse, processes of modernization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Poland, and the history of Lź. Currently, he is working on a post-doc research project about the discourse of the urban in the Kingdom of Poland at the turn of the twentieth century.

AGATA ZYSIAK is a historical sociologist. She is an assistant professor at the University of Lź, working on postwar Poland, modernization, and industrial cities. She is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2017-2018. She also works at the University of Warsaw comparing urban decline in Detroit and Lź.