RADNIČKI I SOCIJALISTIČKI POKRET U PIROTSKOM KRAJU DO PRVOG SVETSKOG RATA
THE LABOR AND SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN THE PIROT REGION PRIOR TO WORLD WAR ONE

Summary/Abstract: In the period prior to World War One, the labor movement in Pirot, as in most other Serbian provincial areas, made progress in an industrially underdeveloped environment. These circumstances influenced the character of the movement, its development, and accomplishments. In this environment, still largely dependent on crafts and trade, in which money was still loaned at extortionate interest rates rather than being invested in companies, the consequences of the laws of a growing capitalist trade and the disintegration of old traditions became increasingly obvious. Despite the fact that the labor organization was primarily made up of craftsmen, involved from the very beginning in the general socialist movement of the Serb proletariat, the labor movement in Pirot soon surpassed its phase of labor society and soon became part of Serbia's modem labor movement.

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