摘要：The author analyzes the transfer of the labour force out of agriculture in Yugoslavia, with a special view of Vojvodina. He stresses the negative consequences of that process: the increase of old-people and part-time households, pressure for the employment of the rural population in towns etc. In his explanation of that process, the author gives priority to economic factors. He analyzes the following: the strategy of economic development, the unfavourable economic position of agriculture, relatively low incomes in agriculture, the instability of the market for agricultural products, structural changes in the development of agriculture, technical changes in agriculture, the employment policy and the slow development of socio-economic relations in agriculture. The author concludes that it is essential, through measures of the economic policy, to stop rapid rural exodus. This would make it possible for agriculture to absorb a large part of the unemployed labour force.
