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SUMMARY:Historicizing Social Justice: Labour\, Rights and Power in 20th-ce
 ntury Central Europe - Radka Šustrová\, University of Vienna
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:A commitment to social justice and the promise of social equal
 ity have been a permanent feature of both democratic and dictatorial regim
 es in 20th-century Europe. Scholars have discussed the nonviolent dimensio
 ns of governance in state-socialist dictatorships\, including the social w
 elfare and social policy practices of National Socialist rule in German an
 d non-German territories. Similarly\, research on Western democracies has 
 moved beyond traditional welfare state history to examine welfare institut
 ions and welfare rights and entitlements as crucial means of constructing 
 a democratic consensus. This talk goes further and explores the notion of 
 social justice among workers in Austria and Czechoslovakia from 1930s to 1
 980s. It takes a perspective from below and focuses on workers’ quest fo
 r social justice in the workplace. The presentation will be based on ongoi
 ng research project titled ‘Workers’ Agency and Social Justice in the 
 Age of Authoritarianism: Austria and Czechoslovakia\, 1938–1989’.
LOCATION:History Faculty Board Room
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