Agricultural Economics, 2003 (vol. 49), issue 7
Social capital in the change of the Czech agriculture
H. Hudečková, M. Lošťák
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):301-309 | DOI: 10.17221/5402-AGRICECON 
The paper continues the debate over the nature and the role of social capital in the Czech agriculture. This issue is not marginal because social capital is also emphasized in the Czech SAPARD Plan. The paper develops the thoughts of J. Chloupková and C. Bjřrnskov published in this journal in their paper "Could social capital help Czech agriculture?" (No. 6 in 2002). Differing form mentioned authors, this paper coins dual nature of understanding social capital. This understanding forms the background of the concept of social capital in the works of French sociologist P. Bourdieu. Dual concept of social capital interconnects the most often use of understanding...
The possibilities of solving unemployment of workers in agriculture and construction
S. Buchta
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):310-316 | DOI: 10.17221/5403-AGRICECON
The paper deals on theoretical level with the potential solution of unemployment of seasonal labour in agriculture and construction industry, i.e. in the sectors where the work is typically seasonal. It proposes compensation for salary and insurance premiums paid from the National Labour Office resources (so-called maintenance wage could be based on minimal wage or minimum subsistence income) during winter season. Recipients of those wage compensations would be employers who could employ these employees during winter season. The maintenance wage could substitute for unemployment benefit which is paid during their unemployment. This solution would not...
Care for monuments in Central Europe regarding the revitalisation of the countryside
T. Hájek
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):317-322 | DOI: 10.17221/5404-AGRICECON
The cultural landscape and rural areas are considered to be a key component of the European cultural heritage. The European Landscape Convention, which the Czech Republic signed in the autumn of 2002, was also formulated in this sense. Consequently, the reform of care of monuments cannot be left entirely to official workers, but is becoming an important subject from the standpoint of maintenance of the functional and demographic stability of rural areas. It is necessary to point out that the care for monuments in Central Europe is at a crucial point, that could be described as a crisis. The reasons are as follows. 1) Time extension of care for monuments...
Changes in professions and wages in the farms
S. Buchta
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):323-328 | DOI: 10.17221/5405-AGRICECON
To-and-fro migration of rural population
L. Kříž
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):329-333 | DOI: 10.17221/5406-AGRICECON
EU membership - problems of communication of integration processes in the frame of European structures in agrarian sector
M. Dvořáková
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):334-337 | DOI: 10.17221/5407-AGRICECON
European Society for Rural Sociology
E. Kučerová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):338-340 | DOI: 10.17221/5408-AGRICECON
Information of the Autumn School of Rural Sociology taking place
L. Kocmánková-Menšíková, I. Herová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):341-342 | DOI: 10.17221/5409-AGRICECON
Remember of Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
H. Hudečková
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(7):343-346 | DOI: 10.17221/5410-AGRICECON