Veřejný život, počátky dělnického hnutí a Gutenbergovi mladí ve třech stávkách: Lipsko 1865, Praha 1869, Vídeň 1870

• Authors: Jakub Raška

Title variants

EN

Public life, the beginnings of the labour movement, and Gutenberg‘s youth in three strikes: Leipzig 1865, Prague 1869, Vienna 1870

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the circumstances of three strikes of typographers (i.e. printers, typesetters and type founders) that took place at the beginning of the organised labour movement. Following strikes were studied: in Leipzig in the spring of 1865, in Prague in the summer of 1869, and in Vienna at the end of the winter of 1870. The first part of the study deals with the specifics of typographers who, as the elite and elitist labour aristocracy, stood in-between the social worlds of the forming group of factory workers and the middle-class intellectuals. The second part observes the strategies and agency of individual participants during these three strikes. The final part of the study is devoted to the specific features of women’s work in the book printing industry and to the sharp responses of striking workers to attempts by certain printwork owners to begin teaching women the art of typesetting.

Keywords

EN

history; 19th century; Bohemia; early labour movement; female labour; gender; letterpress printing; strike; nationalism; socialism; cisleithania; kingdom of Saxony; Prague; Vienna; Leipzig; Jan Bavorský; Karl Höger; Max Menger; Emil Adolf Roßmäßler

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 41-84
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jakub Raška

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic