Pregled prvih radničkih borbi na podruju Hrvatske (1869. - 1914.)
Overview of the First Workers’ Struggles in Croatia (1869-1914)

Author(s): Luka Pejić
Subject(s): Economic history, Social history, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: labor movement; socialism; social history; strikes; workers’ organizations; Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia; Dalmatia; Istria;
Summary/Abstract: In the article, the author elaborates the historical processes that influenced ideological and organizational formation of the early labor movement on the territory of today’s Croatia. The analysis is focused on the period from the late 1860s, i.e. from the time of the first known strikes and foundation of workers’ associations, to the beginning of the First World War. The paper deals with the issues of heterogeneity of the working class and its social and political position within the context of industrialization. Moreover, it takes in consideration and explains the most important demands articulated by the labor movement. The author discusses ideological forces that shaped the movement, its regional specificities, the most important strikes, prevailing forms of workers’ organization and the government’s attitude towards the subversive activities of socialist agitators. In short, the aim of the article is to provide an outline of key characteristics of the labor movement that was present in Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, but also Dalmatia and Istria at the turn of the century. Also, it seeks to provide a socio-historical insight into the life of the working class faced with challenges of modernization and affirmation of capitalism. Archival sources, newspaper materials and relevant secondary literature were used during the preparation of the text. Previous researches done by the author, dedicated to the phenomenon of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, served as the starting point for the composition of this article.

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