Monday, February 29, 2016

Monday, 29th February

Hi classmates!
Today in Social Sciences class we have reviewed the topic of new class-based society, which we learnt on Thursday. After that Paqui has introduced the topic about the Labour Movement with some pictures about the bad living conditions of workers.


LABOUR MOVEMENT
  • FIRST WORKERS' PROTESTS: Protests against the bad living conditions of workers were the consequences of the labour movement. LUDDISM: workers destroyed the machines because they considered them responsible for their bad working conditions. Not organized protest. The workers discovered were executed.
  • CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: Living and working together made the workers become aware of their situation and start organize to improve.
  • FIRST WORKERS' ASSOCIATIONS: Mutual benefit societies (associations of workers who paid a monthly fee to help other workers in case of illness) and Trade unions (associations of workers to fight for the improvements of their conditions. At the beggining they were forbidden)
  • FIRST ATTEMPTS TO INTERVENE IN POLITICS: CHARTISM (Political movement that demanded political rights for the workers. They presented a chart to the Parliament with their demands. They didn't get what they wanted



LABOUR MOVEMENT IDEOLOGIES
  • SOCIALISM
    • DEFINITION: ideology that aspires to build a society in which the the means of production are collective 
    • BRANCHES: Propositions based on collective property and the idea that humans are good by nature and willing to cooperate. All these propositions failed.
      • ROBERT OWEN: He owned a cotton fabric factory, he worried about his workers and created a model community called New Lanarck. He tried to extend this to the USA, but the experience failed.
      • COUNT OF SAINT SIMON: He considered the kings, nobles and clergy to be useless and parasitical groups. He promoted the abolition of inheritance.



        GLOSSARY:
        1. LUDDISM: luddismo
        2. LUDDITE: luddita
        3. WARNING LETTER: carta de aviso
        4. CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: conciencia de clase
        5. MONTHLY FEE: cuota mensual
        6. MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY: sociedad de socorros mutuos
        7. TRADE UNION: sindicato
        8. DECK: puerto
        9. POSH: pijo
        10. CHARTIST MOVEMENT: movimiento cartista
        11. BALLOT BOX: urna
        12. CONSTITUENCY: distrito electoral
        13. UTOPIAN: utópico
        14. COMMITTED: comprometido
        15. PARTNER: socio

1 comment:

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello,

Here you have my corrections:

- You have to add the sources of all the pictures you have included.

- You should only copy the theoretical contents, but also include the questions and debates we had during the lesson.

- You should add the demands of the chartists. What political rights did they want to get?

- You have forgotten the two branches of socialism and the title of Utopian socialism a

- We also spoke about the idea of abolishing inheritance. You should tell something about that.

And these are the things you have to correct. Erase the things in brackets:

• FIRST WORKERS' PROTESTS: Protests against the bad living conditions of workers were the consequences of the labour movement. LUDDISM: workers destroyed the machines because they considered them responsible for their bad working conditions.It was not an organized protest. The workers discovered destroying the machines and factories were executed.

• CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: Living and working together made the workers become aware of their situation and start organizing to improve.

• FIRST WORKERS' ASSOCIATIONS: Mutual benefit societies (associations of workers who paid a monthly fee to help other workers in case of illness) and Trade unions (associations of workers to fight for the improvement(s) of their conditions. At the beginning they were forbidden)


• SOCIALISM
o DEFINITION: ideology that aspires to build a society in which the (the) means of production are collective
o BRANCHES: Utopian socialism and scientific socialism or Marxism

UTOPIAN SOCIALISM


GLOSSARY:
1. DOCK: puerto

That's all. Bye.