The Issue of ´Robot´and of Hereditary Subjection at the Vienna Reichstag during the Revolution of 1848

• Authors: Pavel Kladiwa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study analyzes the abolition of hereditary subjection and compulsory labour duties (‘Robot’, or ‘Fronarbeit’, or ‘robota’) during and after the revolution of 1848/49. In the summer of 1848 the Vienna Reichstag was the scene of long and heated debates regarding the conditions and mechanisms for the abolition. The study describes these debates and the motivation behind the positions taken by the right-wing and left-wing factions in the parliament. The author then analyzes the law which eventually abolished hereditary subjection and Robot (31 August 1848), including the implementing regulations of 4 March 1849.

Keywords

EN

Austrian Empire; revolution of 1848/49; agriculture; rural population; hereditary subjection and Robot

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hospodářské dějiny (Economic History)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-29

Contributors

author

Pavel Kladiwa

• Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Reální 5, 701 03 Ostrava, Czech Republic