Projects / Programmes
Gospodarska in socialna zgodovina Slovencev od sredine 19. stoletja do 1990 (Slovene)
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.01.00 |
Humanities |
Historiography |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H270 |
Humanities |
Social and economic history |
Researchers (8)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The economic and social history of Slovenes, as we understand it, could be defined as the process of forming the Slovene economic system, and the integration of the Slovene territory into a uniform economic sphere within different economic systems and political frameworks (capitalism - socialism; Austria -Yugoslavia), together with the resulting transition from an agrarian to an industrial society with all the social consequences inherent in such a transition.
The research thus investigates the short and long-term restructuring of the traditional economy, and the modernisation of the Slovene economic and social structure in the period between the mid 19th century and the present day - from the early days of the modern economy as it abandoned feudalism, to the modern post-industrial society.
This era was marked by major social and economic structural changes, and was most typically characterised by the following processes: the move away from agrarianism towards industrialisation in the economic sphere. The nature of the processes under analysisi demands a long-term research project. In examining economic history, it is necessary to group the themes to be researched into agrarian and non-agrarian historical periods.
Within the former, the central research problem appears to be the move away from agrarianism in Slovenia. This theme encompasses the following sub-themes : the long-term restructuring of agriculture (structure of production and branches of economy, and its scope; dynamics and factors of change), individualisation and commercialisation of agriculture, the introduction of the achievements of the agrarian and technological revolution, tha system, position, role and sectors of agriculture in different political frameworks and social systems, and the mechanisms of the institutional promotion of structural changes and enterprise in agriculture.
The research into non-agrarian history, on the other hand, will address that which may be brought within the common term of industrialisation. It will analyse its process dynamics within the different political frameworks, and within the politico-economic environment existing in that period. This part therefore discusses the individual stages of industrialisation, from its outgrowing of the framework of isolated modernisation centres in the 20 th century, to industrialisation as a continuous social and economic process in the 20 th century. Industrialisation further opens up a range of other research themes : traffic infrastructure, institutions of financial meditation, financing of enterprise (domestic and foreign capital), power supply, trade and crafts, development of domestic technology, administration and management, innovation, formation of economic elites and their relations to other social groups of influence.
In terms of social history, it should be stressed that this type effects of the wide-ranging processes of de-agrarianis and industrialisation. The following will be analysed in this context:long-term changes in the social structure (population, jobs, internal and external migrations, health care) and landscape (industrialisation); the development of the social welfare system (healtf insurance, accident insurance, retirement pension insurance and unemployment insurance); changes in lifestyle of different social strata, such as customs, social life, food, dress and housing, standard of living and the formation and development of consumer society. Finally, research into tourism as an economic, social and cultural phenomenon also belong in this context.
Most important scientific results
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Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
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