Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914

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Nebřenský, Z. - Herc, Svatopluk
Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914.
International Labor and Working-Class History. Roč. 104, Fall 2023 (2023), s. 103-122. ISSN 0147-5479. E-ISSN 1471-6445
Grant CEP: GA ČR GA18-03921S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985921
Klíčová slova: welfare capitalism * workers’ housing policy * Habsburg Empire
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impakt faktor: 0.5, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547922000163

This study focuses on welfare capitalism and workers’ housing policy in the Habsburg Empire on the eve of the Great War. It deals with the concessions for buildings containing healthy and affordable workers’ flats. The study argues that the existing research on welfare capitalism concentrated mostly on the entrepreneurs and industrialists as key actors in the building of workers’ flats. As the concessions for the building of workers’ houses suggest, the imperial authorities also maintained welfare capitalism and played a certain role in supporting the construction of workers’ housing. Through the concessions, authorities tried to regulate the company construction and to intervene into places of the everyday. They sought to enforce an appropriate lifestyle and to separate spaces for people of workers’ background, male and female workers, single workers, and workers’ families.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0352558