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The Role of the Labor Press in Shaping the Political Culture of the Croatian Working Class at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Depending on the development of the labor movement in particular countries, the working-class newspapers had, mostly since the mid-nineteenth century, become a transnational phenomenon and a medium through which the working class expressed its political views. The first initiatives to start the labor newspapers in Croatia and Slavonia can be traced back to the end of the 1860s, but they were unsuccessful. It was not until October 1874, mostly at the initiative of the Zagreb artisans, that the first bilingual general workers’ paper obtained the publishing permission. From then on until the end of the First World War, the working-class newspapers would be published continuously, presenting various ideological concepts present in the international labor movement such as lassallism and marxism. Given the small number of literate and (politically) uneducated workers in Croatia during that time, the labor press would also emphasize its educational function. With this in mind I will attempt to analyze its role in shaping the political culture during the first (1867 – 1889) and the second (1890 – 1917) period of the development of the labor movement in Croatia.

radnički tisak, politička kultura, hrvatska radnička klasa

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