This study is a part of the RE-WORK research project at the Centre for Social Science
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and it contributes to the initiative to create
a social history overview of Hungarian industrial labor since the last decades of
the nineteenth century. Women workers in Hungary have been part of the labor force
ever since the beginning of industrialization, and yet they have mostly formed a distinct
and in certain ways segregated group of industrial laborers. Based on statistical
data, a review of secondary literature, and pointing at some original sources, the
study provides an overview of the main characteristics and the tendencies as well
as the most relevant features of women’s employment in industry in Hungary.
