Token - Špani plehi ND

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Farmers used to give tokens to hired hands after the work was done and they were common among the vineyard workers of Slovenske gorice and Haloze. They served for counting the workdays and indirectly for paying hired labour. They were used to record the work of hired hands over a whole year, a specific job, or a job performed within a certain period of time, and the additional jobs performed by vineyard workers: some farmers used them only occasionally, when they were short of money or kind to pay the workers. Farmers kept evidence of the work done and handed out tokens in special accounts books, and the workers kept the strings of tokens received from individual farmers at home. When a worker lost a token, he was not paid.
Accessed at https://www.etno-muzej.si/files/rovasi.pdf, page 125-126, on 11.10.2020.