The article presents artefacts of folk mining art in the collections of Slovak Mining Museum in Banská Štiavnica, such as sculptures of miners in home altars and nativity scenes, models of mines hidden in bottles, or models of the town’s architectural landmarks. We can further find there sacral folk oil paintings with mining motifs, or utility objects decorated with mining motifs like wall clocks, plates, jugs, walking sticks. The article also describes the most famous creators of folk mining art, the most used materials and basic production techniques.
The contribution is a collection of mining uniforms in the collection of the Slovak Mining Museum in Banská Štiavnica with an emphasis on the visual specialities of the mining jackets in the context of the periodic regulations of 1919, 1953, 1983, 2004 and 2009. Jackets originating from various mining sites of Slovakia are analysed, as well as the contemporary producers which have been identified thanks to the preserved labels and signed buttons.
This article is devoted to work of women in national concern Ore Mines - Factory Banská Štiavnica. The lettering agenda of Ore Mines - Factory and also opinion evidences of former employees from 1950s and 1980s became the source of exploration. 1950s were difficult for women. No one, neither organizations, nor families, were prepared for such cardinal change in life of a society. Social roles of partners in families got exchanged and the county just built up a network of pre-school institutions and other services, which could at least partly compensate traditional home work of women. Similarly, the ore factories - for centuries the male work-bench - were not ready for the women approach. This submission zooms in the motivations of women decided to work in heavy industry operations, there are their "typical" working positions brought in, also the span of their extra-work activities and legislative ambits, which regulated the women work in ore factories.
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