Economic foundations of conflicts and solidarity within the traditional rural community of Slovenia
Economic foundations of conflicts and solidarity within the traditional rural community of Slovenia
Author(s): Žarko LazarevićSubject(s): Economy, National Economy, Economic history, Economic development
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: local communities; conflicts; social justice; moral economy; cohesion; Slovenia
Summary/Abstract: The following article focuses on the economic conflicts in the local rural communities in Slovenia until World War II and analyses the example of the privatisation of a public good, the relations between labour and capital, and economic solidarity in form of cooperatives as a tool for ensuring social cohesion at the local level. The author presents a viewpoint that the feeling of social justice (moral economy) represented a cohesive element in the analysed local communities. Justice, defined according to the rules of traditional law, provided the relations in the local communities with a status of legitimacy. If the feeling of justice was questioned, then the legitimacy of the social relations and consequently the cohesion of the local communities were uncertain as well.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 77
- Page Range: 27-40
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English