Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

II Upland Market Town - II-10 Craftsman's House from Gyöngyös

11-10 Work of the hoers, day-labour Labourers were paid by the day or half-day. For centuries the working day was from sunrise to sunset, that is 10-14 hours in summer and 6-8 hours in winter This is an average of 10 hours' work with 1 hour lunch and half an hour rest in the morning and in the afternoon. As a result, payment varied - according to supply and demand and according to seasons. In accordance with the system of the age, the hoers were sometimes paid in kind. The days wage is determined by one "hoe", a 'hoe' being the area hoed by one person in one day. That is why it was less motivating than the payment by results and the wages settled by bargaining before the work as at harvest. In Northern Hungary there were several types of holes, differentiated by the place where they were in use. tained bed lies the mother in confinement. On the table pots covered with an embroidered white cloth stand. As future godmother of the baby the wife of the craftsman has brought white coffee and a traditional cake for the mother as a mid-afternoon snack. One of the most beautiful gardens of the regional unit can be found in the yard of the house. It is planted on the basis of ethnographical research.