POLOŽAJ RADNIŠTVA U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI DO MAJSKIH ŠTRAJKOVA 1906. GODINE
POSITION OF WORK FORCE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA UNTIL THE MAY STRIKES OF 1906.

Summary/Abstract: Upon the basis of some archive documents and the existing historiographic documents some new facts about social origin, number and the economic position of the workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina up to May strikes in 1906 have been established. The Researches have shown that the working class in Bosnia and Herzegovina was of heterogenious national, social and qualificative structure in which the unskilled season workers of native and foreign origin prevailed. After the investigation of all accessible, data it has been found out that in 1906 there were about 48.000 employed workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In collision with its half-oriental, feudal structure, the initial industrialization met a whole series of troubles which it tried to suppress by a rough, way of exploatation. This was especially applied towards the women-workers working at the tobacco factories and the ones working in the carpet factories in Sarajevo, as well as towards the season workers employed for cutting the woods. A whole series of strikes conducted for economico-social reasons were suppressed by the intervention of police and gendarmerie. Inspite of a very strict oppression from the part of the state, the working class began to organize their first illegal and semi-illegal associations through the strikes. This process was accelerated in 1905 and 1906 by sudden decrease of real rents.

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