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Rote Fahnen - Blauer Montag: Soziale Bedingungen von Aktions- und Organisationsformen der frühen Wiener Arbeiterbewegung [1979]
Red Flags - Blue Monday: The Social Conditions of Action and Organisation in the Early Viennese Labour Movement
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Abstract From the 1860s to the 1880s, Vienna was the hotbed of organising for a permanent labour movement in the Habsburg lands. During this period, Vienna proved to be a social and political laboratory in which very different forms of workers' protests and organisations were tested. Moreover, there was no c... mehr
From the 1860s to the 1880s, Vienna was the hotbed of organising for a permanent labour movement in the Habsburg lands. During this period, Vienna proved to be a social and political laboratory in which very different forms of workers' protests and organisations were tested. Moreover, there was no clear trend towards unification or homogenisation; rather what appeared were breaks and reversals. The aim of this chapter is to map the colourful variety of labour movements in this brief period and embed them in the equally colourful structures of the Viennese working classes. Numerically dominant were workers and journeymen engaged in small-scale production still dominated by traditional artisanal working and living conditions, such as living in the master's household, being unmarried, and moving frequently between workplaces and cities. The opposite and much smaller pole was formed by mechanical engineers, who were qualified and well-paid married men in stable occupations. I argue that the latter small group of workers shaped the Viennese labour movement in its early years. The economic crisis of 1873 and the years that followed, however, significantly weakened their social and political position and created space for the revival of forms of protest and organisation rooted in artisanal traditions. The "Blue Monday", as the Saint Monday was called in German, symbolises this tradition.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wien; Österreich; Arbeiterbewegung; Arbeitsbedingungen; Lebensbedingungen; Arbeiterorganisation; Wirtschaftskrise; Gewerkschaft; Streik; Sozialdemokratie; Anarchismus; Wirtschaftsstruktur; Sozialstruktur; Kleingewerbe
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
wirtschaftlicher Aufschwung; Depression; Bildungsvereine; Arbeiterparaden; Konflikt; Eisenbahnwerkstätten; Maschinenbau; Buchdrucker; Schriftsetzer; social profile of Viennese workers; diversity of working and living conditions; economic boom and first great depression; educational associations; workers' parades
Sprache Dokument
Deutsch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 87-116
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2023) 34
Heftthema
Arbeit, Bevölkerung, Alter und Migration - historisch und im interkulturellen Vergleich: Eine persönliche Retrospektive
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)