Servants in Retrospect of Historic and Social Contexts of the 19th and 20th Century from the Ethnological Point of View Cover Image

Služobníctvo v retrospektíve historických a sociálnych kontextov 19. a 20. storočia z pohľadu etnológie
Servants in Retrospect of Historic and Social Contexts of the 19th and 20th Century from the Ethnological Point of View

Author(s): Magdaléna Paríková
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: Servants; Urban And Rural Environment; Social And Professional Stratification;

Summary/Abstract: Servants represented a stable social and professional structure of the urban and rural society. The article is focused at the servant institution in a context of factors that caused the persistence of this social phenomenon in Slovakia until the beginning of the second half of the 20th century. It also points at the creation and development of servants as a social reality in the condition of an obvious status and wealth difference among the society. According to the examples of the current times, the author points at the actuality, that labour for hire in social history presents an important part of the economic strategy in society.

  • Issue Year: 20/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 243-251
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Slovak
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