Original scientific paper
Some Possible Lines of Research into the Structure of the Yugoslav Working Class in the Period between the Wars
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
Abstract
The importance of research into social structures in accepted today without question. Research into the structure of the working class occupies here a special place. There exists, however, a variety of ways and methods of research and no one of these methods (or theories) has been sufficiently perfected to serve as a model for all the rest. This article is merely a small contribution to the discussion of these problems. The scope of research into the structure of the working class in the past is dependent on statistical sources. Yugoslavia, in the period between the wars, did not succeed in building a statistical service at the state level until the second half of her existence, and almost all the statistical evidence, owing to changes in administrational areas and various other reasons, is open to certain objections.
In this short account, which was read at the VII Congress of Yugoslav historians in Novi Sad on 6th. October 1977, rough outlines were given of the statistical evidence available for research into the structure of the working class in the period between the wars. Particular emphasis was placed on the statistics of social insurance and on population lists from 31st. March 1931 onwards. Combining these two statistical sources we can show relatively accurately the growth of the working class in the period between the wars, for Yugoslavia as a whole and for smaller regions. This method was applied to the province of Savska in the dissertation of Mira Kolar Dimitrijević, defended at the Philosophy Faculty in Zagreb in February 1978. This work, however, has not made the fullest use of all the possibilities which present themselves in the application of this method.
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219062
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Publication date:
7.6.1978.
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