Vol. 7 No. 4 (2018)

Published December 31, 2018

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Thematic Papers – Worker – life – representation

  • Cseh fotográfia a két világháború között a művészet, társadalom és politika hármasa felől közelítve
    105-122
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    64

    A tanulmány a két világháború közötti cseh fotográfiára fókuszál a média és technika szemszögéből. A fotózás jelentős szerepet játszott a 1920-as és 1930-as években a modern kultúra kialakításában az újfajta tömegtájékoztatás, az iparosítás, a megváltozott szabadidő és kulturális
    kapcsolatok révén. A tanulmány tehát a fotóművészetre mint gondolkodást befolyásoló tényezőre összpontosít. A tanulmányban fontos cél, hogy az eszmék fordított áramlását mutassa be, tehát azon dimenziók felől közelítsen a fotográfiához, amelyeket maga a fotóművészet ragad meg.

  • Drawn Commuters: Caricature as a visual historical resource
    125-150
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    63

    Despite of the fact that during the time of state socialism commuters meant a continuously
    growing social group both in proportion and in size, writing about their social history has
    been pushed into the background so far. The author’s aim is to fill this gap by trying to discover
    the most of the available sources of different genres. The present study shows part of this
    larger volume work, it shows what it can add to our knowledge about a social group through
    traditional sources if we include caricatures of a given social group as visual historical sources
    in the analysis.
    In this paper, the author analyses sixteen caricatures of commuters, published in “Ludas
    Matyi,” comparing written and audio visual sources. In the study, she tries, among other things,
    to find out if there was a definite commuter picture of “Ludas Matyi”, and if so, to what extent
    did this commuter’s image differ from that of other products in the press? To what extent did the
    satirical portrayal of commuters refer to long-distance commuters and to what extent to daily
    commuters? Were the real anomalies of commuting in the era reflected in Ludas Matyi?
    The analysis discusses the economic and social processes that characterize the time of
    publishing the caricatures, and denominates the external and internal characteristics and
    emotions commuters were endowed with.The aim of the author is to present the method of
    caricature analysis, which emphasizes the comparability of resources.

  • Revisiting enterprise politics in the interwar Hungary: The case of The Rimamurány–Salgótarján Iron Works Co.: Worker‘s lifestyle and rate of living on the colony of the steel factory in Salgótarján before the World War II.
    151-166
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    60

    The Rimamurány–Salgótarján Iron Works Co. in Salgótarján started to run up from 1871. The
    people who lived in the workers’ colony of the Steelworks in Salgótarján differentiated themselves
    from the rest of the local residents not only spatially but also in their appearance, as a result of
    their higher standard of living. At the begining of the 20th century the major streets of the colony
    (Acélgyári Street) had macadam or stoned surface and were lit with public street lightning. The
    duty of the socalled Dwelling Master was to guarantee neat, clean, tidy streets within the colony.
    Steelworkers had more opportunity to visit the shops and barbershop than those men who lived
    within the downtown. This difference was partly due to their higher income and partly due to
    the fact that the services of the comany’s shop and the barber at the colony were much cheaper
    than those of other local barbers since it was ordered so by factory management. Workers’
    houses were up to the standards of the time, they did not pay rent or just a very low price and
    workers had a possibility to build their own garden houses on the land of the company. All this
    fundamentally changed in the second half of the 1940s owing to post-war lack of raw material
    and Socialist ’modernization’ and uniformization. The period of communist dictatorship after
    World War II, nationalization of the works and Socialist ’modernization’ created trauma at the
    colony.

Tematikus tanulmányok – A munkaerőpiac gazdasági-társadalmi kérdései

  • Career planning and competences assessment among university students
    34-45
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    81

    Planning a career cannot be started soon enough. The determination of following a
    career path preceded by significant decisions and aims. Several pieces of research are
    dedicated to the affiliation of young adults self-awareness and career paths in terms of
    seeking work. University students rarely have the appropriate amount of self-knowledge.
    Nowadays in the labour market beside the qualification, competencies are growing in importance. It is crucial to have certain communication, integration and strategic
    skills to successfully find a quality job. The University of Debrecen provides a wide
    variety of available services regarding individual job search support or consultation
    and the commitment of a career path. The surveyed university students valued the
    importance of these services and competencies related to improving the finding of a
    job after graduation. The conformity between the knowledge of the available services
    and the required and existing skills could be helpful in the labour market after getting
    the university degree. The questionnaire was filled out by students from the University
    of Debrecen and valued by the IBM SPSS Statistics programme.

  • Equal opportunities at work? Equal opportunities and legal protection in the labour market
    46-63
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    91

    The study examines the realization and the development of legal protection of equal opportunities
    in the labour market. The purpose of the research is to identify the most common problems
    related to the violation of equal opportunities during the period since the Equal Treatment
    Authority began its work.
    The study explores whether types of discrimination can be identified, which are the most
    prominent and which are the most disadvantaged characteristics of the labour market in
    Hungary today. The correlations discovered demonstrate that although regulation of the legal
    background has greatly facilitated the awareness of individuals in this field, there is a need to
    create further forums of discussion to achieve measurable results.

  • Transition from higher education to the IT sector in Cluj-Napoca
    64-93
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    59

    The present paper focuses on those factors that affect transition from higher education to the
    IT sector in Cluj-Napoca, in cases of entrants with informatics, automatization and computer
    technology degree. The results show that transition to the IT market in Cluj-Napoca is primarily
    influenced by the dependency of the local IT market on western IT markets with more central
    positions, followed by the competition for workforce. The first factor: dependency is due to skill
    shortages on the labour market in Cluj-Napoca. Launching new trainings with the involvement
    of other departments at universities, such as design, business, sales, marketing or business
    informatics can reduce dependency according to the representatives of the local institutions of higher education. Transition from higher education to the IT sector for entrants in ClujNapoca is smooth, due to the strong competition for workforce (second factor). Entrants select
    their potential workplace based on the reputation of a workplace, position/projects, team
    and remuneration. Labour shortage is present both in the IT sector and in higher education.
    A long-term solution for reducing labour shortage in both sectors could be provided by creating
    attractive career paths in the academy which would require stronger cooperation between
    companies, state and higher education institutions, according to the representatives of the
    institutions of higher education.