The statute labour

• Author: Gheorghe Rosculet
• Position: Faculty of Sociology and Communication, University Transilvania of Brasov
• Pages: 53-58

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 8 (57) No. 1 - 2015

THE STATUTE LABOUR

Gheorghe ROŞCULEŢ1

Abstract: The Romanian villages, whose origins date back in the old ages,

have created and preserved life settlements which have allowed them remain

unchanged over time and proved the high quality of a well done thing. The

long lasting existence of these patterns of organization of the village life has

been so high that they have coexisted, over time, with the statehood

organizational structures, preserving their regulatory force unaltered,

regardless of the historic era. The statute labour is included among these

patterns or life settlements, still preserved in the Romanian area; it is the

result of shared experience and life in common. The basic principles of the

statute labour are solidarity „economic brotherhood”, mutual aid -

principles generating social consistency.

Key words: village communities, statute labour, priest’s statute labour,

solidarity, mutual aid.

1 Faculty of Sociology and Communication, University Transilvania of Brasov.

1. Introduction. The collective character

of the village life

The rural communities have been, with

each generation, generators and keepers of

some life settlements or patterns designed

to plan the social life in a round path

unaltered, simple and natural „in the shade

of history making events.” The old forms

of organization and development of the

village life, like communities, joint

property, village household, forest

composessorates, the common right (the

land’s custom), evening sitting of village

women, young men’s groups and the

statute labour, etc, with their unaltered

organisation and their frequent mission of

life building, have opened vast horizons

and the opportunity of lasting throughout

centuries to the rural world. The process

has not been carried out, however, in a

uniform manner all over the Romanian

area.

Thus, some of these settlements have

fully preserved their impact on the life of

rural communities, coexisting with the

organizational state like forms (political-

administrative, economic and juridical

forms); others have known a continuous

process of dissolution under a constant,

overwhelming and constraining pressure

emerged from the new circumstances

generated by the state authority, a process

completed with a relatively late integration

of these villages in a superior political

organization.

Therefore, the Romanian villages

contributed to the emergence of a world