Agrikulturna modernizacija in življenjski svet podjetnih polkmetov. Integrirana kmečka ekonomija v socialistični Sloveniji
Agricultural Modernisation and the Life-World of Enterprising Part-Time Farmers. An Integrated Peasant Economy in Socialist Slovenia

Summary/Abstract: The present article examines the characteristics of the economic history of the Slovenian countryside in socialist Slovenia through the perspective of the changes that the purchase of modern agrarian technological devices brought to the peasant households. It is based on the concept of an integrated peasant economy, which explains that peasant households made a living by combining self-sufcient agriculture and market-oriented activities and takes a closer look at the peasant families of part-time farmers (semi-proletarians). The article highlights the importance of agricultural modernisation, which signifcantly determined the development of agriculture through the modernisation of production techniques and the introduction of agricultural machinery. It provides insights into who in the family introduced innovations to the farm and how agricultural mechanisation affected the gender division of labour, social stratifcation and generational discontinuities within an individual peasant economic unit. Using an oral history approach, the article seeks to present a diferent perspective based on the experiences of part-time farmers and their daily practices, thus contributing additional information to the existent ofcial political and economic historical discourse.

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