PRACTICI ECONOMICE ÎN SOCIALISMUL ROMÂNESC. CÂTEVA ISTORII LOCALE
ECONOMIC PRACTICES IN ROMANIAN SOCIALISM. SEVERAL LOCAL STORIES
Author(s): Sînziana PredaSubject(s): Economic history, Oral history, Social history, History of Communism, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Roma; communism; job; Lugoj;
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the memory of the communist era, regarding the economic strategies developed in a Roma community from Banat region. Oral testimonies reveal the evolution of a marginal collectivity, from working as day laborers to the position of employees in Lugoj town factories. In the same time, the Roma from Măguri will gradual move from the village outskirts to more visible areas (next to Romanians), a status transformation that reflects improvement of their status. The main explanations lie in the accumulation of capital brought by employment in the city, but, more importantly, in the communist state’s policy of integrating a problematic minority.
Journal: BANATICA
- Issue Year: 1/2022
- Issue No: 32
- Page Range: 553-561
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Romanian