The 1866-1918 period was characterized by the elaboration of a vast legislation in the field of labor relations. The constitution of 1866 was followed by a whole series of laws - the Missir Law, the Orleanu Law, the Nenițescu Law for the organization of trades, credit and workers' insurance from 1912, etc. - through which a series of minimum protection rights of workers were established, following that their legal regime will be concretized by ordinary laws, laws which, however, were left waiting for a long time in certain fields. If there were, however, certain salary norms for industrial workers, and a series of regulations of the Communal Councils establishing the clauses of service contracts for servants, for agricultural workers there could be no question of establishing a remuneration regime. The payment of the agricultural worker was made according to the custom of the land, in money or in kind, the value of the salary oscillating depending on the set of concrete conditions existing in the respective region at the given time. In fact, until 1937, Romanian legislation did not include any rule regulating the use of labor in agriculture, and the institution of the collective labor contract, able to ensure favorable conditions of stability and wages for workers, was unknown and, through therefore, inaccessible to agricultural workers.