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Frauenarbeit und Arbeiterfamilie in Wien: Vom Vormärz bis 1934 [1981]
Women's Work and Working-class Families in Vienna: From the Pre-March Era until 1934
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Abstract This chapter reconstructs the extent and the structure of women's gainful employment in Vienna from the early nineteenth century to the 1930s. The very focus, however, is on the tension between work performed for wages and housework and how it was negotiated in working-class families. The basic assu... view more
This chapter reconstructs the extent and the structure of women's gainful employment in Vienna from the early nineteenth century to the 1930s. The very focus, however, is on the tension between work performed for wages and housework and how it was negotiated in working-class families. The basic assumption is that during the hundred years under investigation, the relationship between women’s housework and wage labour changed according to the different phases of the industrialisation process: centralised manufacture and domestic industry particularly in textile production; a specific form of the Industrial Revolution defined by the expansion of artisanal small-scale production; the breakthrough of capitalist labour relations in the era of "high industrialisation"; and, finally, advanced industrial capitalism from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1930s. Each of these phases was characterised by distinct labour markets for women, specific family patterns and housing conditions, and by specific ideas about gender roles and family life. An investigation into these various factors makes use of a range of different sources including population and occupational statistics, contemporary social surveys, and autobiographical writings. The combination of these sources reveals several ambivalent trends. Specifically, the last period of industrialisation is characterised by women's increasing participation in modern factory work; the increased withdrawal of married women from gainful employment together with a growing appreciation for housewives in working-class families; a stricter assignation of household chores to women; but also a strong inclination towards vocational training and career in the future plans of girls.... view less
Keywords
Vienna; Austria; women's employment; housework; gender role; housing conditions; working conditions; living conditions; family; nineteenth century; twentieth century; Pre-March Period; industrialization; factory work
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
Arbeiterfamilien; working class families
Document language
German
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 117-151
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2023) 34
Issue topic
Arbeit, Bevölkerung, Alter und Migration - historisch und im interkulturellen Vergleich: Eine persönliche Retrospektive
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed