Zusammenfassung der Ressource
UNIT 2
- The origins of the labour movement
- LUDDISM:: It was a movement
led by groups of British
craftsmen who protested by
destroying factories and
machines
- CHARTISM: It was a political and
social movement that demanded in
the People's Charter a series of
improvements for society.
- STRIKE: An stoppage of
activity to force an employer
or some authority to agree
- TWO MAIN ONES
- Socialism
- Scientific socialism or Marxism, was the
ideology developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
They wrote a text explaining it: the Communist Party
Manifesto.
- Anarchism
- It was defined by theorists such as Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin and Piotr Kropotkin, who
advocated for a social revolution through ‘‘direct action’’
and revolutionary unions.
- INTERNATIONALISM: Socialist system that advocates the international
association of workers, on the basis of a program of struggle against capitalist
society and of taking power in the name of communist principles.
- UTOPIAN SOCIALISM: Utopian socialism proposed
profound social reforms in favor of the working
class, raising ideals such as solidarity or
cooperativism and on which an egalitarian and
fraternal society would be built.
- MAY DAY: On may day (May 1, 1889) several labour
leaders were arrested and executed in Chicago
during a demonstration demanding and eight-hour
workday. In his memory May day was established
as the world day of workers day.
- FEMINISM AND SUFFRAGISM
- SUFFRAGE: It's the right to vote,
especially in a political election
- FEMINISM: Doctrine and political and social movement
that asks for women the recognition of the same
capacities and rights as for men