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- Title
Mining Labor Agreements in the Jiu Valley during the lnterbellum Period.
- Authors
BARON, MIRCEA; DOBRE-BARON, OANA
- Abstract
During the interbellum period, the Jiu Valley was the most important coal basin in Romania, which in 1939, accounted for 60.74% of the national production and 67.15% of the consumption of the Romanian National Railways. In order to achieve this production, the mining companies were using a qualified work force with a maximum of 18,197 employees in 1924 and minimum of 7,247 employees in 1932. Our study deals with one of the institutional ways of regulating the work relations between the coal companies and their employees in the Jiu Valley, namely the collective work contract. The first collective work contract was signed on July 10, 1920, and in prinicipal was meant to regulate the following: work conditions; the employees' payment and supplies; the provision of housing, heating and electricity; the protection of children, apprentices, and women; the prevention of accidents and rescuing; measurements for the employees' health and hygiene; the treatment of convalescents, victims of accidents, and invalids; holidays; etc.. These issues were to be found in all subsequent collective work contracts from the interbellum period. We can appreciate that, during most of the interbellum period, the sustained dialogue and the application of the stipulations of collective work contracts ensured a climate that supported productive activity, as well as the social, economic, and cultural development of the Jiu Valley.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; COLLECTIVE labor agreements; MINES &; mineral resources; MINERAL industries; RAILROADS; COAL industry
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2013, Vol 21, p257
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article