3.2002.2084.2: Industrial Problems, Coöperation: Austria. Vienna. Arbeiterkonsumverein: Coöperative Societies, Austria: Arbeiter Consumverein, Vienna
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2002.2084.2
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Industrial Problems, Coöperation: Austria. Vienna. Arbeiterkonsumverein: Coöperative Societies, Austria: Arbeiter Consumverein, Vienna
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- c. 1903
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
- Culture
- Austrian?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/11302
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 14 x 10.2 cm (5 1/2 x 4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: Arbeiter Consumverein, Vienna. This Society was the outcome of a lecture on the Rochdale Pioneers, attended in 1864 by some Viennese weavers. In 1865, 17 of them formed a society and started with the purchase of 2 sacks of flour, retailed among their number. In 10 years membership and trade increased 300% in each case. Now the Society provides for 34000 workingmen's families, owns its buildings and 2 dozen distributive branch stores. It has 2 good reserve funds. Further working capital is supplied by its saving department. Employes work 9 hours a day. They receive a fixed share in the profits towards providing them with old age pensions. The productive departments of the Society are coffee, chicory, and fig roasting works, and a bakery.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 3.2002.2084.2
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Subjects and Contexts
- The Social Museum Collection
Related Works
Verification Level
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