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Neue Sichtweisen zu Gemeinschaft, Autorität und Widerstand gegen den Faschismus in Österreich

Post-war histories of fascism were compromised by founding myths of persecution and resistance that favoured institutions; and later, ‘structuralist’ accounts of regime and society also failed to provide a convincing ‘history from below’: ‘structural’ opposition seemed to have neither political motivation nor much impact on the regime. This paper examines the experience of Austrian industrial workers, at work and in the community in order to reverse the perspective by focusing on ‘everyday exploitation’ and ‘everyday resistance’ in their own terms, and less as a means of evaluating the limits of the Nazi project to integrate society into a ‘national community’.