Association for the history of the labor movement
| Association for the History of the Workers' Movement (VGA) |
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| purpose | documentation |
| Chair: | Michaela Maier |
| Establishment date: | 1959 |
| Seat : | Vienna |
| Website: | www.vga.at |
The Association for the History of the Workers' Movement (VGA) is an Austrian association founded in 1959 . It is considered a scientific institution in the vicinity of the municipality of Vienna ( Municipal Department 8).
The association collects relevant historical sources, carries out research projects, issues scientific and popular education publications and organizes symposia and exhibitions.
The director and an employee of the Vienna City and State Archives are represented on the board. The director (currently Michaela Maier), a research assistant and a research assistant at the VGA are employees of the Vienna City and State Archives : The library is highly specialized and contains around 65,000 volumes of all published documents of Austrian social democracy and their political and intellectual environment as well as numerous bequests and other personal documents. The Association for the History of the Workers' Movement is housed in the Vorwärts building , the former headquarters of the Vorwärts Verlag , in the 5th district of Vienna Margareten .
See also
- International Institute for Social History
- Archive of Social Democracy
- Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bonn
- Swiss Social Archives
literature
- Sandra Wiesinger-Stock: The "Association for the History of the Labor Movement" , Studien Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7065-1295-5