Seasonal Work in the Memory of the People of Apátistvánfalva

Abstract

V pričujočem prispevku so predstavljeni izsledki terenske raziskave o sezonskem zaposlovanju prebivalcev Števanovcev (južni del Porabja) med obema vojnama, ko je bilo med vaščani sezonsko delo še zmeraj razširjeno. Na sezonskem delu zasluženi pridelek je bil pomemben vir za preživetje družin. Večmesečno bivanje na posestvih v različnih županijah na Madžarskem, kakor tudi v Nemčiji, je pustilo globoke sledi v spominu Števanovčanov. Pričevanja nekdanjih sezonskih delavcev so pomemben vir pri preučevanju sezonskega zaposlovanja porabskih Slovencev.

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The paper focuses on the findings of a fieldwork research on seasonal work practices of the people of Apátistvánfalva (Števanovci in Slovenian) in the south of Porabje, an area situated in a triangle between Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria. In the period between the First and the Second World Wars, seasonal work was still a significant source of income for the local population. The time spent working in different regions of Hungary as well as Germany, which usually lasted several months, has remained very much alive in the memories of the villagers of Števanovci. Recounts of former seasonal workers and their family members represent an important source for the study of seasonal work of Slovenians from Porabje.