Achievements and failures in the struggle of agricultural officers for their legal status and the regulation of their interests up to the beginning of the 20th century

For the sociology of professionalisation, it is crucial to examine how occupations are shaped by opportunities and constraints within a complex web of intertwined individual, group and institutional relations. In this study, Zsuzsi Kiss sets out to show what framework the institutional structure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries set for the formation of the occupation of agriculturist. In other words: how the expectations and rules of the state, the market and employers influenced the autonomy aspirations of the agricultural officer. In addition to examining the history of agricultural officers' representative bodies and professional congresses, the analysis focuses on the law governing the status of agricultural officers and their relations with employers and the circumstances in which it was enacted. The analysis will show how the labour market for agricultural officers was divided by the dawn of the 20th century: on the one hand, a closed state market, monopolized by qualified (diploma) officers, and on the other, a free market, still characterised by competition between qualified and unqualified officers, as in the previous period.

Zsuzsanna KISS: Eredmények és kudarcok a gazdatisztek jogállásukért és érdekképviseletük szabályozásáért folytatott küzdelmében a 20. század elejéig [Achievements and failures in the struggle of agricultural officers for their legal status and the regulation of their interests up to the beginning of the 20th century]. AETAS, 37. 1. 2022. 62-73.

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