Sociology and Space, No. 69-70, 1980.
Preliminary communication
Workers-Peasants in Three Communes in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia
Kiril Miljovski
Abstract
An enquiry was carried out in 1980
in Prilep, Kavadarci and Berovo
with the purpose of casting more
light on the phenomenon of the
worker-peasant in the SR
Macedonia. Although those three
towns are not an average for the
republic, the occupational structure
of their inhabitants is specific. The
worker-peasant is a tradition in
Prilep, and the part-time
grape-grower in Kavadarci.
Insufficiently developed Berovo
does not make it possible for
large numbers of town inhabitants
to have an additional occupation.
The enquiry was carried out in
50 households in each of those
three towns, and it included all
the adult employed household
members. According to the results
obtained, the number of those
employed in the socialist sector of
the economy does not reflect the
degree of development of the
commune, as the rate of
employment in the socialist sector
is more or less the same both in
the most developed commune
(Kavadarci — 42.1%) and in the
least developed one (Berovo —
42.7%). There were most
workers-peasants in Prilep, then in
Kavadarci, and least in Berovo.
the author established that bastard
of so-called »unorganized
compensation«, i.e. the smaller the
percentage of those employed in the
socialist sector of the economy, the
larger, absolutely and relatively,
the number of those employed in
agriculture as an auxilliary
occupation.
Examining the income structure of
persons with a double occupation,
the author established that bastard
professions are typical for the towns of Prilep and Kavadarci.
They ensure two sources of income,
which however modest in amount,
are higher when added up than
the income from a permanent job
in the socialist sector. The author
concludes that the general attitude
of our society (local or broader
level) towards double occupation
is contradictory, and sometimes
negative.
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Hrčak ID:
119428
URI
Publication date:
10.12.1980.
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