What to Do with Family Accounts? Two Sides of Raising the Living Standards in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s
| dc.contributor.author | Jančík, Drahomír | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-08T13:58:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-08T13:58:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2336-6710 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/196135 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | cs |
| dc.publisher | Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta | cs |
| dc.subject | Czechoslovakia (1953–1959) | cs |
| dc.subject | Individual consumption | cs |
| dc.subject | Standard of living | cs |
| dc.subject | Price policy | cs |
| dc.subject | Money reform 1953 | cs |
| dc.title | What to Do with Family Accounts? Two Sides of Raising the Living Standards in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s | cs |
| dc.type | Vědecký článek | cs |
| dcterms.accessRights | openAccess | |
| dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ | |
| uk.abstract.en | The study offers an insight into consumption and consumer behavior in Czechoslo vakia in the period from the money reform in 1953 to the first economic reform in the late 1950s. Its focus lies in the analysis of the consumer behavior of one particular family based on the preserved records of its income and daily expenses. Conclusions of the analysis are more general, as the family in question, in terms of the amount of income per member, belonged to the lowest income group and thus represented the full half of the population living in Czechoslovakia. It turns out that the living condi tions of this income group were far harsher than can be read from the average data in statistical yearbooks and official documents. The rationing system within the cen tral planned economy generated a permanent shortage, even in the assortment of ba sic foodstuffs and industrial goods. The consumption was regulated by the state eco nomic policy primarily by price and wage policy. Wage levelling and price setting in the single market led this income group to spending most of its income on food and clothing. The family in question, like other families in the same income group, allevi ated consumption deficits through self-sufficiency and domestic sewing. It had only negligible resources to raise living standard or improve household equipment. | cs |
| dc.publisher.publicationPlace | Praha | cs |
| uk.internal-type | uk_publication | |
| dc.description.startPage | 86 | cs |
| dc.description.endPage | 109 | cs |
| dcterms.isPartOf.name | Prague Economic and Social History Papers | en |
| dcterms.isPartOf.journalYear | 2020 | |
| dcterms.isPartOf.journalVolume | 2020 | |
| dcterms.isPartOf.journalIssue | 1 | |
| dcterms.isPartOf.issn | 2336-6710 | |
| dc.relation.isPartOfUrl | https://wisohim.ff.cuni.cz |
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