The number of Hungarians who earn their…

1888 CE to 1899 CE

The number of Hungarians who earn their living in industry will double to 24.2 percent of the population between 1890 and 1910, while the number dependent on agriculture will drop from 82 to 62 percent.

However, the 1880s and 1890s are depression years for the peasantry.

Rail and steamship transport give North American farmers access to European markets, and Europe's grain prices fall by fifty percent.

Large landowners fight the downturn by seeking trade protection and other political remedies; the lesser nobles, whose farms fail in great numbers, seek positions in the still-burgeoning bureaucracy.

By contrast, the peasantry resort to subsistence farming and work as laborers to earn money.

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