Mgr. Jakub Raška, Ph.D.

Jakub Raška (born 1990) studied social history at the Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He currently works at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he focuses on the social and cultural history of the modern era, with an emphasis on labour history, social movements, and broader societal transformations. He also serves as managing editor of Modern History, a journal dedicated to the history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Between High Culture and the Working Class: Typographical Communities in Leipzig, Vienna, and Prague, 1840–1914. The study examines the rise of the labour movement in the context of fundamental social and political change from the eve of the 1848 revolutions to the outbreak of World War I, using a small but relatively elite group of workers as a case study. Its main focus is the transformation of collective identities among manual workers in the modern era, understood as a key precondition for collective strategies and practices within social movements.

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