MOMCI IZ HERCEGOVINE I BOSNE U DUBROVAČKOM ZANATSTVU, TRGOVINI I POMORSTVU U XIV, XV I XVI STOLEĆU
JOURNEYMEN FROM HERZEGOVINA AND BOSNIA IN HANDICRAFTS, COMMERCE AND MARITIME TRADE OF DUBROVNIK IN XIV, XV AND XVI CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the migration of man-power was present also in earlier times, when the factor of human work was by far more amphasized than it is today, in the century of automatized machines. In the case of Dubrovnik and its Herzegovinian hinterland there was а genuine coincidence of complementary conditions for the employment of foreign labour: demographically active Herzegovins, but rugged and poor, could easily and without any prejudice to its own economy get rid of the surplus of working hands, whereas the town of St Blasius, situated in the neighbourhood and economically very active, was always in need not only of specialists from Italian towns, but also of manual labour on which was founded, to а great extent, the rapidly increased volume of reproduction and trade since the introduction of manufacturing method of work (in the twenties of the XV century).

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