Original scientific paper
HOUSEHOLD ZADRUGAS IN THE COUNTY OF VARAŽDIN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY
Milivoj Ređep
Miroslav Žugaj
Abstract
The paper deals with the processes affecting the zadrugas (extended family groups) in Croatia and Slavonia, particularly in the County of Varaždin. The de velopment of the capitalist production relations brought about gradual disappearence of the zadrugas because their form of organization was not suited to the new economic conditions. As a direct consequence of the breaking-up of this form of large peasant households, both the holdings and the individual plots of land became smaller, which in turn led to the ever-increasing impove
rishment of the village. These trends were thus partly responsible of extensive emigratory processes which were strongly felt at the transition from the 19th to the 20th centurv.
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134128
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Publication date:
5.12.1991.
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