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Verena Conzett

Verena Conzett
Born
Verena Knecht

28 November 1861
Zürich, Switzerland
Died14 November 1947(1947-11-14) (aged 85)
Kilchberg, Switzerland
Other namesVerena Conzett-Knecht
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Switzerland
SpouseConrad Conzett (m. 1883–1897)

Verena Conzett (28 November 1861 – 14 November 1947) was a Swiss magazine publisher, labor activist, and women's rights activist. She became the first president of the Swiss Women Workers' Union in 1890.[1][2] Her own experience as a child factory worker led to her lifelong advocacy for insurance protection and shorter working hours.[3][4] Following the death of her husband in 1897, Conzett took over his print shop, narrowly escaping bankruptcy.[5] A decade later, she acquired a Linotype typesetting machine and expanded the business into the Conzett & Huber publishing house.[6] In 1908, Conzett launched the illustrated magazine In freien Stunden, and established herself as a successful entrepreneur.[7] Subscriptions to the magazine included accident insurance, which had not yet been mandated by law in Switzerland.[8] Her autobiography, Erstrebtes und Erlebtes, was first published in 1929.[9] Now in its third edition,[10] it has been called "the longest and most literate" of the autobiographies of late 19th-century working-class women written in German.[11] Verena-Conzett-Strasse in Zürich is named after her.[12]

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  2. ^ The Swiss National Library refers to the SAV as the "Swiss Women Workers' Union", distinct from the Union of Swiss Women's Associations. See How to speed up a snail Archived 24 February 2022 at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved 24 February 2022.)
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  5. ^ Treichler, Hans Peter (2011). Die Arbeiterin in Zürich um 1900: Sozialgeschichtliches auf den Spuren Verena Conzetts (1861–1947) (in German). Zürich: Conzett Verlag. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-3-03760-023-8. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022 – via Issuu.com.
  6. ^ Treichler, pp. 60–64.
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  8. ^ Aplanalp, Andreij (7 November 2019). "Text and a picture, to hold it all together!". Swiss National Museum. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
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  10. ^ Conzett, Verena (1929). Erlebtes und Erstrebtes. Ein Stück Zeitgeschichte (in German) (3 ed.). Zürich: Conzett Verlag. p. 2. ISBN 9783037600245. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2022 – via Issuu.com.
  11. ^ Fout, John C. (1984). "The Woman's Role in the German Working-Class Family". German Women in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History. New York and London: Holmes & Meier. pp. 297–299. ISBN 0841908435 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ Kommission des Quartiervereins Aussersihl-Hard. "Verena Conzett". kreis4unterwegs (in German). Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.

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