O gospodarskih in socialnih nazorih na Slovenskem v 19. stoletju

The Slovene space was in the 19th century relatively well informed about the major changes being experienced by the more rapidly developing Western Europe, and particularly by Great Britain, with modern industrialization and the introduction of scientific and technical discoveries in manufacturing and trade. Information on the »miracles« of the new technical and industrial period, accompanied by enthusiasm for modernization and progress, started to advance in lands inhabited by Slovenes as early as the thirties of the 19th century, when the censorship in the Hapsburg Monarchy was slightly eased. The most important Inner Austrian and Slovene pre-March (1848) windows on the world in this respect were Graz and Trieste. In 1838, the Association for the Promotion and Support of Industry in Inner Austria was founded as one of many institutions established by Archduke Johann, and which, through its journal, the Inner Austrian Industry and Crafts Gazette, became the most important promoter of industrialization and of economic and social change in the Trieste hinterland in the forties of the 19th century. In Trieste, from the beginning of the 1840s merchants and economic planners inclined to the Austrian economic rise grouped themselves around the insurance and shipping company, Austrian Lloyd, led by the future Austrian Minister of Finance Karl Ludwig von Bruck. Their journal was the Austrian Lloyd Journal, written in German, which, in the decade before the revolutionary year 1848, became the main Austrian journal of economics and politics. The articles and commentaries published by the Austrian Lloyd Journal not only expressed the views of the Trieste merchants, but also the standpoints of the more liberally oriented Vienna middle classes and the court itself.