Luchando por los alimentos y el combustible:  la historia de las protestas de subsistencia en Europa Central

Philipp Reick

doi:10.70794/hs.107834

Authors

Philipp Reick Technische Universität de Berlín https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-5542

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.107834

Keywords:

Food riots, Subsistence protest, Violence, Inflation, Central Europe

Abstract

This article explores the history of subsistence protests in Central Europe analyzing the changes in claims and repertoires of such protests, and exploring the factors that fueled or mitigated violence. Focusing on food and fuel riots in interwar Europe, the article challenges the prevalent assumption that food riots disappeared in the West in the second half of the nineteenth century, a period of fast modernization. The article concludes by considering the potential of historical studies for a better understanding of the reemergence of similar struggles in light of the recent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic sanctions on Russia.

Author Biography

Philipp Reick, Technische Universität de Berlín

Marie Curie Fellow at the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). Her research focuses on the history of industrial and labor relations, labor organizations and social movements, with special emphasis on urban social mobilization. Her most recent publications are "From Hatred to Hope: Emotions, Memory, and the German Labour Movement in the late Nineteenth Century" (Memory Studies, 2023) and "American Labor and the Working Day" (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2022).