Prawo pracownicze w dobie industrializacji w monarchii habsburskiej
Employment law in the age of industrialisation in the Habsburg Monarchy

Summary/Abstract: The booming industry was one of the basic factors of the modernisation in nineteenth century. Technological innovativeness was a driving force in the development of the liberal economy, especially in metalworking industry, textiles and mining. The industry substantially influenced the development of the cities, where the industrial plants were established. This period saw an increase in the population of the cities due to contract work, which enabled people to earn their living. The industrial revolution changed the structure of the employment in the economy of England, France, Belgium and other countries of Western Europe. Besides economic sphere, it influenced social circumstances, the politics and culture. In Austria, this process was less impetuous. The Habsburg Monarchy was the country where the industrialisation processes did not happen on a large scale or cause major transfigurations in economic relations. Until the end of the multinational monarchy, the Austrian economy preserved the agrarian character, although the modernisation of the economic structures was developing in nineteenth century.

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