Sociology and Space, No. 4, 1964.
Original scientific paper
The surplus of labour power on peasants' farms in SR Croatia
Zdenko Ružić
Abstract
At first the author cites the available data on surpluses of labour power at peasants’ farms in districts and in the whole Republic as well.
Though as a consequence of the postwar socioeconomic development of the whole country the surplus of labour power in agriculture considerably declined, it still exists and influences negatively the process of modernization of agricultural production. The author calculated the surplus of labour power in two variants.
The second variant differs from the first one because it included in labour power persons 60 and more years old but with the coefficient 0,6 due to their reduced working potentions, and a part of female labour power engaged in agriculture and houseworks as well and therefore taken with the coefficient 0,9.
In 1960 according to the first variant the surplus of labour power on peasants farms in Croatia amounted to 107,152 or 39,9% and by the second variant 82,193 or 33,7%. Beside this the author quotes the data for particular districts and so shows the regional variations comparing the necessary labour power and surplus labour power on
peasants’ farms.
In the second part of the article the author comments the figures on sui pluses of mobile labour power on peasants’ farms. In the concluding part of the article the author considers the economic and social presumptions which would under definite circumstances enable the better use of all avalaible reserves in agriculture.
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118212
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Publication date:
24.3.1964.
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