The social question as a focus of Interest of the political and entrepreneurial elites: lands of the bohemian crown 1880 - 1914
2014
Abstract
This text analyses major initiatives in the area of social inequality and proposals for its partial reduction before the First World War which were put forward by politicians or which belonged to the world of ideas of entrepreneurs. There is a perceptible transfer of ideas for addressing social questions from the West to the East of Europe with an emphasis on employment and unemployment statistics, workers' coalition freedom, protection of women's and juveniles' work, legalisation of a minimum wage, workers', old-age, disability, health, and accident insurance.
Another part of the chapter explores in depth opinions of leading Austrian entrepreneurs in the Czech Lands on regulation of workers' social problems.