Numerous studies conducted by the Committee for Studies on Regions under Industrialization of the Polish Academy of Sciences provide the basis for historical analysis and regional comparison relative to concept formation, program guidelines, and program implementation procedures for rational human factor management. The exhaustion of Poland's agricultural manpower reserves has created labor management problems for both the whole economy and specific industrializing regions. Labor management should aim at ordering phenomena related to occupational migration from agriculture in terms of socio-occupational and spatial systems which exert an active influence upon the development of migration, its scope, and its form via a long term human factor management program. Such a program should aim at ensuring conditions for effective change monitoring which encompass the technical and social environment and permit intensive manpower management relative to the interests of both agriculture and industry. Starting with the individual, his group and social needs, such a program should strive to limit all the negative effects of rapid industrialization/urbanization. A concept of manpower management in the Lublin Coal Basin suggests a model incorporating peasant-worker settlements, intensive agricultural development, and extensive transformations. (JC)