The struggle of craftsmen against the competition of forced labour
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economic history, 19th century, craftsmanship, Ljubljana, Austria-HungaryAbstract
In the waves of industrialisation during the second half of the 19• century, craftsmanship underwent farreaching changes. Unlike the other craftsmen in the Slovene lands, the craftsmen of Ljubljana mostly complained about the competition offered them by the craftwork of prisoners in forced labour workshops and prisons. At that time, though, forced labour was considered the most important means of correction for various »labour shirking« marginal groups. This basic opposition between the economical interests of the craftsmen and the public interest of ensuring correctional means for prisoners could only be solved by limiting forced labour to those branches of the economy in which it did not offer any direct competition to the craftsmen.
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