Polkmetje in socialistična država: integrirana kmečka ekonomija v Sloveniji v letih 1957–1965
Part-Time Farmers and the Socialist State: Integrated Peasant Economy in Slovenia Between 1957 and 1965

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the phenomenon of the increasing employment of farm workers outside their households in Slovenia in the period before the 1965 economic reform. Due to the decentralisation and gradual release of market mechanisms in the economy, farmers were given many opportunities at the time to combine their incomes. On the one hand, the economic activities of this working population benefited companies and the national economy as a whole by delaying investments in housing and increasing wages, while, on the other hand, these workers were problematic due to exhaustion and poorer labour productivity. The attitude of politicians, managers, and scientists towards the part-time farmers was therefore not unequivocal.

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