!!!Arbeiterbildungsvereine

Arbeiterbildungsvereine (Workers' Educational Societies), a typical 
feature of the phase of organisation of the  Labour Movement in 
Austria, associations that combined educational (lectures, courses and 
libraries), social (singing, gymnastics, etc.), economic (health and 
invalidity funds) and - though initially forbidden under the 
association law - political objectives. Emerging in many parts of the 
monarchy from 1867, these associations were mostly founded and 
supported by Liberals, but many of them soon became grassroots 
organisations of the Social Democrats. After the Hainfelder Parteitag 
of 1888/89 they gave way, in many cases, to union-type crafts 
associations, which also professed the "imparting of knowledge, 
enlightenment and education" to be one of its objectives. From 1908 
onwards the two rival organisations cooperated with one another in the 
"Education Committee of the Vienna Workers' Organisations", which 
ultimately resulted in the full integration of the workers' 
educational societies in the Social Democratic Workers' Party ( 
Sozial-demokratische Arbeiterpartei - SDAP) ein.  Zentralstelle fuer 
das Bildungswesen.

!Literature
P.-H. Kucher, in: Die Schul- und Bildungspolitik der 
oesterreichischen Sozial-Demokratie in der 1. Republik, 1983.


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