Faluról városba. A megkésett iparosodás hatása az ingázó nők munkavállalására Vas megyében, 1960–1970
From Village to Town: The Effects of Delayed Industrialization on the Employment of Commuting Women in Vas County (1960–1970)

Summary/Abstract: The study primarily focuses on how the political elite of Vas County experienced the social impact of the county’s industrialization process – the involuntary industrial employment and commuting of village women – which was a taboo due to ideological and economic reasons in the 1960s. It first describes Vas, a county on Hungary’s westernmost border, and explains the chronological scope (1960–1970) of the research. It presents the industrial development and unique labor market of the county and continues with an overview of the concepts which determined the attitudes of the county’s leaders and of the local press under their supervision towards female industrial workers from the countryside. The study then turns to a detailed analysis of the ways in which the economic development brought about by socialist industrialization placed large portions of the county’s female population in an extremely vulnerable position. For a nuanced description of the tasks imposed upon commuting women, the study not only considers the different social roles of village and urban populations, but also provides a detailed gender-based overview of their social situation. It is based primarily on official records of the meetings of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party’s (MSZMP) party committee, as well as those of the party’s Executive Committees of both Vas Country and Szombathely. The overall aim of the study is to expose the ways in which village women were placed in the labor market in the 1960s.

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