The Education System between Private Business and the State. The Antagonism and Synergies of Industrial and State Paternalism in the Vitkovice Company Town (1869-1914)
2021
Abstract
This article aims at analyzing, within the scope of industrial and state paternalism, the interdependent dynamics between employer (Witkowitzer Bergbau- und Eisenhuttengewerkschaft), employee, and the Austro-Hungarian state, taking as an example the development of the education system of the Vitkovice (Witkowitz) company town, located in Moravia, one of the crown lands of the Habsburg Monarchy. The opening point of our research is the year 1869, when the so-called Hasner school law was adopted.
The closing point is February 1914, with its new intervention into educational policy in the crown land of Moravia.