Florin‑Vasile Pop (coordonator), Claca de coasă din Țara Chioarului. Priviri contemporane, Editura Galaxia Gutenberg, Târgu Lăpuș, 2022
Florin Vasile Pop (coordinator), The scythe group work in Chioarului Country. Contemporary views, Editura Galaxia Gutenberg, Târgu Lăpuș, 2022

Summary/Abstract: In the world of the Transylvanian villages, the "time of the harvest", mowing and hay gathering have always been a substantial part of the agricultural work during the year, and in the mountain villages this activity, although it started later, was prolonged until the beginning of September, to continue with the mowing of the sheep. The changes brought about by urbanization and forced industrialization between 1948 and 1989 and, last but not least, the international migration of the Romanian workforce in the post-totalitarian period, together with technological progress, meant that this type of seasonal 'toil', which was so defining of the Romanian countryside, declined in terms of its share and volume in the life of the villages during the summer months. With the decline of this aspect of the 'rural economy', certain practices that traditional communities used to carry out naturally and naturally, such as the organized huts during the mowing and hay harvesting seasons, also began to become a thing of the past.

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