Lifestyle and fate after 1945 of former farm servants of large estates

Knézy, Judit (2012) Lifestyle and fate after 1945 of former farm servants of large estates. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 57 (1). pp. 157-186. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

Research on the life of former farm servants is less comprehensive than in the case of peasants. The examination on the economy of large estates led to meaningful findings concerning Somogy county in the 1930s and also since the 1970s. Much less revealing was the research on the lifestyle of estate servants although many researchers and volunteer collectors have published about it, but only briefly. After 1945 some of these former servants became independent farmers or worked as hired help on other farms. While some of them moved into the villages, others remained in the former pusztas which were gradually closed down in the 1970s. Changes occurred in the construction, economy, ownership and use of the land and the whole lifestyle of the villages. These changes differed among former servants, peasants still living in the place of their birth and peasants moving to other regions, depending on their initial wealth.

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