Coverage of Daily Life of Factory Workers in Vyatka Governorate in Regional Press at Turn of 19-20 Centuries

Abstract

The features of the coverage of the mores of factory workers of mining and military departments in the regional press at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries are considered. The study is based on the materials of the official edition - “Vyatskiye gubernskiye vedomosti.” Special attention is paid to the opinion of contemporaries who published essays, notes, correspondence on acute public topics in the newspaper. It is shown that the term morals in the study period, as a rule, was used to refer to local customs, the specifics of behaviour, illustrating deviations from the norms of morality, respectively, the publications were characterized by an accusatory tone. A review is made of journalistic materials reflecting the problems of the plant society during the crisis of the Ural mining industry on the example of Izhevsk, Kamsko-Votkinsk, Omutninsk, Peskov, Klimkovsk, Shurminsk and Glavnokholunitsk plants. It is concluded that the periodical press focused attention on topical social issues: level of crime, imperfection of justice, drunkenness, low cultural level of working youth, lack of educational and leisure institutions, etc. As a result, the reader formed mainly negative view of the daily life of industrial workers. Nevertheless, the messages on the topic of the day not only supported interest of the public, but also offered ways to solve the problems and exit from the crisis.

Keywords

• «вятские губернские ведомости»
• vyatka governorate
• vyatskiye gubernskiye vedomosti
• journalism
• industrial centers
• factory workers
• mores
• crime
• asocial behaviour