JVF Conference Papers
The glorious fin-de-siècle days of the Habsburg Monarchy were never more in evidence than in the magnificent capital of Vienna during the late 19th century. The well-chronicled Ringstrasse world of Johann Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Otto Wagner provided a fairy tale existence for Austria’s aristocracy and upper middle classes. However, in Vienna’s poorer districts, members of the industrial working class were living a nightmare.
