Bussinessmen versus Workers, or Strikes and Lockouts (Closures) in Austrian Silesia at the Turn of the 19th Century

• Authors: Stanislav Knob
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Economic struggles between employees and employers, especially the strike movement represents one of the very important factors in the economic history of the 19th and 20th century. The search for the causes of strikes on a regional level depends on understanding the structures between employers and employees. Every such analysis involves many difficulties. It is necessary to keep an unbiased view, set into the contemporary context. Sources don’t have to provide answers to all of our questions. The more we know about the social background of the workers and their linkage to businessmen and local conditions, the better we can understand their actions.

Keywords

EN

Strike; closure; lockout; worker; Austrian Silesia; the Ostrava-Karviná mining district

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hospodářské dějiny (Economic History)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-45

Contributors

author

Stanislav Knob

• Centre for Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Reální 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic