The main aim of the research project, that also includes this paper, is the investigation of the social history of Hungarian factory workers from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century in the case of Ózd, a small industrial city in northeast Hungary. For the purpose of this research the author uses not only the traditional historical and statistical sources and methods, but family history, personal history, and life story approaches too. The basic sources of the research are the registers of births, marriages, and deaths, and various kinds of family history and life story interviews. From this material, the author reconstructs a multigenerational worker family life story. Families were one of the determining groups of the Hungarian working class in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The major questions of the research and paper are the following: How is it possible to reconstruct the life stories of ordinary families and people? How can this reconstruction help us gain a deeper insight into the stratification and the internal power/hierarchical structures of the factory and local society? The first part of the study is an outline of the history of the factory and the settlement. The second part reconstructs and analyzes a typical multigenerational family history as a case study. Finally, the article investigates the process of socialization of multigenerational worker families. Through this analysis the author introduces and characterizes the main elements of the value system and the most typical patterns of social behavior of this section of Hungarian workers from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

该研究项目（包括本文）的主要目的是对匈牙利东北部的一个小型工业城市Ózd的匈牙利工厂工人在19世纪末至20世纪末的社会历史进行调查。 。出于本研究的目的，作者不仅使用传统的历史和统计资料和方法，还使用了家族史，个人史和生活故事方法。该研究的基本来源是出生，婚姻和死亡的记录，以及各种家庭历史和生活故事访谈。作者从这些材料中重建了一个多代工人的家庭生活故事。家庭是19世纪和20世纪匈牙利工人阶级的决定性群体之一。研究和论文的主要问题如下：如何重建普通家庭和人们的生活故事？这种重建如何帮助我们更深入地了解工厂和地方社会的分层以及内部力量/等级结构？研究的第一部分概述了工厂和住所的历史。第二部分以案例研究的形式重建和分析了典型的多代家族史。最后，本文研究了多代工人家庭的社会化过程。通过这一分析，作者介绍并描述了19世纪末至20世纪中叶这一部分匈牙利工人的价值体系的主要要素和最典型的社会行为模式。