Marginalised groups of rural population.

摘要

This paper focuses on the unemployed people in Slovak agriculture. Approximately 35-40% of people from this unemployed group have already no more chance to be reintegrated into the labour market. The analysis points out the regional occurrence of this type of unemployment (less urbanized sub-mountain areas, stagnating and backward regions facing various processes of de-industrialisation, etc) and evaluates its wider socio-economic impacts. After 2000, the fragmentation of employment contracts in the corporative types of farms (agricultural cooperatives and companies) began to appear in the agricultural sector. The category of seasonal agricultural workers with decreased labour and social protection began to emerge as well. To cope with the situation, a certain self-supplying (subsistence farming) subculture was established in the Slovak rural areas to mitigate the difficult economic conditions of the rural households endangered by income deprivation, including the decreased purchasing power of the rural population.