Social status and living standards of people’s teachers according to the materials of teachers’ congresses (the end of the XIX-beginning of the XX)
The article is devoted to the actual problems of teachers’ daily life in primary public schools, the discussion and solution of these problems during the teachers’ congresses - the first professional associations of people’s teachers. In particularly, the author focuses on the attitude of teachers to the peculiarities of their legal and domestic positions, which was expressed by general dissatisfaction with their status and searching joint ways to improve working and living condition. Thereby the emphasis is placed on the analysis of the proceedings of the 1st and the 2nd All-Russian mutual-aid societies congresses, which had been focused on discussion of investigated problems. The study of teachers’ needs and demands and attempts of solving these problems at the congresses allow to judge about the degree of maturity of the teachers’ corporate culture.