Study library on the history of the labor movement
The study library on the history of the labor movement emerged from the extensive private library and material collection of the bookseller Theo Pinkus .
history
In 1971, a foundation was established for the purpose of establishing, operating and expanding a study library on the history of the labor movement . The holdings of the private library Theo Pinkus went into the foundation and formed the basis of the study library.
The study library was housed in the foundation's own building at Wildbachstrasse 48 in Zurich. The books and magazines were set up in different themed rooms: reading and study rooms, history and theory rooms, country rooms and workers' culture rooms. The inventory was made accessible through an alphabetical card catalog and a catalog for subject areas.
The collection of the study library has been continuously supplemented and expanded and includes around 50,000 monographs and an extensive collection of small letters. The holdings mainly include literature on the topics of early socialism , the labor movement , anti-fascist resistance, new social movements and exile literature .
The holdings of the study library have been in the Zurich Central Library since 2001 and are kept under the signature SGA. The journal inventory has remained at the foundation's location and can be viewed there.
See also
An institution with a similar thematic focus is the Swiss Social Archives .
literature
- Theodor Pinkus: Book search service and study library on the history of the labor movement . In: Nils Schiffhauer, Carola Schelle (ed.): Date of barbarism . Notes on the burning of books in 1933. Postscript, Hannover 1983, ISBN 3-922382-16-9 , pp. 170–176.