Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Labour movements XVIII
and XIX Centuries
- During the XVIII and XIX
Centuries, social
movements were
predominantly labour
movements.
- Age of
protests
- Main
causes
- Change in work organisation and life (society and economy)
- Formation of capitalist system
- Social inequality = capitalists and proletariat
- Harsh living conditions
- Lack of health and work security
- Capitalists only wanted to increase their wealth
- Unequal share of richness
- The Luddites
- Aims
- Put pressure on bosses to avoid dismissals
- Improve working conditions
- Origins
- England, 1811 -
1812
- Ned Ludd
- Thoughts
- Against machinery, they believed
they cause unemployment and
low salaries
- Actions
- Destruction of
machinery
- Set fire to factories and
employers' residences
- Chartism
- 10 hours of work
per day (1847)
- Labour Party (1900)
- People's Charter = William Lovett 1838
- Six
demands
- Universal manhood
suffrage
- Equal electoral
districts
- Vote by ballot (secret
vote)
- Annually elected Parliaments
- Payment of members of
Parliament
- Abolition of the property
qualifications for membership
- Worker's associations
- Mutual organisations
that would protect
workers
- Strikes
- Sickness
- Accidents
- Death/widowhood
- Combination Acts
deemed them
illegal between
1799 and 1800
- In 1824 trade unions become legal.
- Women were excluded
from unionizing,
membership until the 20th
century
- Women's
Protective and
Provident League
(WPPL) 1870
- Women's Trade
Union Association
had little impact
- In 1875 and 1888
two women-led strikes had a
greater impact for women's working rights