Djetinjstvo i odrastanje u Podgorju: služenje i dječji rad
Childhood and growing up in Podgorje:serving and children’s work

Summary/Abstract: In this text the author represents the life of children in the area of Velebit Podgorje (from Sveti Juraj to Karlobag) in the period from the 1930s to the 1960s. Especially emphasised here was the service and work of children. The author describes the services through work on the land and shepherding, work within families and guest houses which were observed through a gender prospective. Within the context of female work described here are shepherding and work in guest houses. Amongst the male work described here is the work in wood mills, the forest, on the road and on ships.Through the described work we learn about how this way of life influenced the children’s and youth’s other aspects of their life (education, family relationships and free time). Special emphasis was made on the influence of children’s work in school in general, the length of school education and the way of synchronising school and family duties. The impact of work on family duties was explained through relationships with their parents and relationships between brothers and sisters. The author divided one chapter about work and free time into two categories which are chronologically presented: children’s play and sewing circle and evening parties dedicated to the young.The results were presented mostly from the prospective of narrators taking into consideration that the aim of the research was to enlighten the living experience of the narrators through their memories and narrations on these topics.

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