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Economic Policy and Mining Interest Organizations in Slovakia up to 1929
Economic Policy and Mining Interest Organizations in Slovakia up to 1929

Author(s): Miroslav Lacko
Subject(s): History
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: Mining interest organizations; Union of Mining and Foundry Enterprises; Slovak Mining Region

Summary/Abstract: The author maps the activities of mining interest organizations in Slovakia up to 1929. The Union of Mining and Foundry Enterprises (Zväz banských a hutníckych závodov) associated only private companies and membership was only voluntary. The union fully developed its activities after 1921, and engaged in many economic, political and social questions. In the process of reforming the fraternal insurance companies (bratské pokladnice), the need to more closely cooperate with the state-owned mines emerged. This led to the formation of a new interest group in 1926: the Slovak Mining Region (Slovenský banský revír). Since membership of this corporation was already compulsory, its influence on the development of economic policy increased, especially after 1929. The agenda of the banking interest organizations strongly reflects all the problems, with which the extractive industry in Slovakia had to struggle in the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: Supplement
  • Page Range: 81-105
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: English