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• Drawn Commuters: Caricature as a visual historical resource

  125-150

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  27

  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.

• ’If a worker’s hostel – let it be good’: The status of worker’s hostels in state and corporate social policy in Szabolcs-Szatmár county in the 1970s

  43-61

  Gréta Murányi-Győri

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  34

  The presentation of the commuter’s ’second home’ is inevitable in connection with the research of commuting as one of the most defining social phenomena of the Kádár era. This is particularly justified in Szabolcs-Szatmár county, which area was closely connencted to the phenomenon of short-distance commuting. One of the main goals of the intertwining state and corporate social policy implemented in the era, especially from the first half of the 1960’s, was undoubtedly to ensure satisfactory living conditions and cultural services provided by workers’ hostels. While from the beginning of the 1970’s, the county’s political leadership, one of the companies employing the most commuters, the Szabolcs County State Construction Company, prioritized the matter of workers’ hostels, which had been operated since the beginning of the fifties, from the end of the sixties. The company’s efforts were mainly shown in connection with the creation of suitable hygienic conditions and the provision of cultural opportunities. However, despite the significant financial outlay, a lasting result was not achieved, as a result of which the corporate goals set in previous decades were also prioritized in the 1980’s.

• Two sides of one coin: Social network of commuter and their families

  54-71

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  23

  People around a person have important roles of the social integration and form of quality of life.
  Changes in the life circumstances like getting a job or changes of the workplaces have significant
  effect to egocentric social network. In a new workplace usually shape new relationships. Then
  again, it is also possible that besides increasing of number of new contacts, there will be those,
  which are drop out from the personal network. Paper shows the rearrange of the personal
  social network of people who works as a commuter and theirs partnerships. Commuter is a
  person who works far from his/her home and he/she goes home weekly or rarely. This topic was
  examined making interviews in 2019 (N=24). On the one hand, these interviews revealed a wide
  and confidant family and kin networks. On the other hand, it seems that, due to the workplaces
  and the common activities at the workplaces and other places (accommodation, shopping etc.), commuter can make new, long-term and confidant friendships which complete his/her family
  relationships and make their social capital stronger.