“Women workers! [Join] under the red banner!” Peasant women’s labour activism in late 19th- and early 20th-century Hungary

The presentation focuses on peasant women’s labour activism, which arose in the so-called “Stormy Corner” in the southeastern part of the Habsburg Empire in the 1890s. The region was known for its repeated harvesters’ strikes and peasant uprisings and became one of the first centers of agrarian socialist organizing in Hungary. By engaging in the inclusive aspects of peasant women’s labour activism and participation in the agrarian socialist movement in the Eastern European countryside, the presentation offers new insights into a yet little explored part of the history of women’s social movements.

Mit Eszter Varsa (social historian, Ph.D. in Comparative Gender Studies, Research Affiliate bei Projekt ZARAH: Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Transnationally from the Age of Empires to the late 20th Century, CEU Wien)

Moderation: Tara Pire

Die Teilnahme ist auch per Zoom möglich. Anmeldung bis Mittwoch, 10. April 2024, 12:00 an pr@frauenhetz.at

Der Vortrag findet auf Englisch statt.

Gefördert aus Mitteln der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung