Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 26/2. (2000)
Istorie
218 ELENA MUSCA a period of radical changes in the life of villages but also towns and cities craftsmen, along with feudalism disolving phenomenon. As a result of developing agrarian techniques, a new market appeared in villages for all handicraft goods. Finally, the number of available jobs increased in towns where trades system was working, but it also began an evident desolving period. Few trade craftsmen resigned and moved to the village for a period of time determined by market demand. We’re referring especially to workers in cloth making field. The process began in 1820 when even more restrictions had benn introduced by law regarding the promotion of trade journeymen. The migration of shoemakers, tailors and thick cloth makers was favored by developing of a few administrative centres or fairs as Crasna, Jibou, Cehu Silvaniei, Nu§falau, certain prices fixed by offer and demand system, as well as developing technics favoured a weakened trade system which became useless and soon disappeared. The decree regarding trade dissolving encountered an existing fact . Trades' place was taken by handicrafts cooperatives that suited system's evolution process of that moment.
