Today in the class of Social Sciences we have done many things.
At first, Paqui has asked us about the homework she gave us last Tuesday. We have corrected three exercises: 10,11 and 12 of the 31 page of our book. Then, Paqui has explained many things about the Labour Movement, the first workers associations, trade unions...
Working and living conditions of workers (dreadful conditions).
Workers' awareness of their bad working and living condtion, the first step to try to improve their situation. First organisation they created:
-Mutual benefit societies: Association of workers who paid a monthly fee and used this money to help the workers when they couldn't work, were ill, suffered an accident... For example: Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore (USA). This was a temporaly solution for some workers, but not for all.
-Trade Unions: Associations of workers of the same profession created to improve the working conditions of their members. Declared illegal until the Combination Acts (1824).
Many people died, because they tried to get all this rights that we have actually and we don't appreciate them. They also made demostrations and strikes.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs (1832). They were condemned because they created a farmers' union. They were punished to Australia. Australia in this times, was a penal colony of the United States. All the criminals were deported here.
The first big union in Spain was UGT (1889).
Next step: Getting the right to vote, to participate in politics, have the possibility of electing their representatives and charging the laws (Chartist Movement). For example: Great Chartist meeting at Kennington Common (1848). They got more than 3 millions of signatures from workers of UK, to obtain the right of vote. Many workers didn't signature, because they were afraid of lose their work post.
Also, Paqui has explained why we celebrated the Workers' day on the 1st of May. (Factory burnt women protesting).
And finally, we have studied the 6 points of the people's charter:
- Vote.
- Ballot.
- No property of valification.
- Payment of members.
- Equal constituencies.
- Annual parliament.
For homework, we have to copy in our notebook the Utopian Socialism.
And like every day, we have copied some new words in our glossary:
- Sentenced to death: Condenado a muerte.
- Death penalty: Pena de muerte.
- Awareness: Toma de conciencia.
- Expectation: Aspiración, esperanza de mejora.
- Workmate/ colleague: Compañero de trabajo.
- Demostration: Manifestación.
- To strike: Hacer huelga.
- Trade Union: Sindicato.
- Banish: Desterrar.
- Chartist movement: Cartismo.
- Chart: Carta (letter with petitions to the goverment).
- To run to the elections: Presentarse a las elecciones.
And, to finish the class, Paqui has given to us the exams we did last Thursday about Unit 3: The French Revolution. My mark isn't bad, but I think that it could be better. It was a very interesting class. See you tomorrow!
2 comments:
Nuria, yesterday was MONDAY
Hello,
I made a mistake about the celebration of the 1st of May. I’m going to explain it on a post: the factory burnt where many women died is the origin of the commemoration of the 8th of March (the Working Women's day).
These are my corrections. Erase the words in brackets and rewrite the sentences I tell you:
You have to rewrite the following paragraph. You can’t copy sentences that I wrote on the blackboard to summarize without explaining them. Add verbs and write complete sentences explaining the content
Working and living conditions of workers (dreadful conditions).
Workers' awareness of their bad working and living condtion, the first step to try to improve their situation. First organizations they created:
-Mutual benefit societies: Association of workers who paid a monthly fee and used this money to help the workers when they couldn't work, were ill, suffered an accident... For example: Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore (USA). This was a temporary solution for some workers, but not for all.
The second step was the union of all the workers to improve their work situation.
-Trade Unions: Associations of workers of the same profession created to improve the working conditions of their members. They were d eclared illegal until the Combination Acts (1824).
The teacher has said that m any people died, because they tried to get all this rights that we have at present and we don't appreciate them. They also made demon strations and strikes.
One example were the Tolpuddle Martyrs (1832). They were condemned because they created a farmers' union. They were punished to Australia. Australia in this time(s) was a penal colony of the United Kingdom. Many criminals were deported here.
Trade Unions were declared illegal by the governments. In the UK they were declared legal in 1824. After this there was an attempt of uniting all the unions of the UK: Grand National Consolidated Trades Union (Union of Unions), promoted by Robert Owen, but it was also forbidden.
The first big union in Spain was UGT (1889).
Next step: Getting the right to vote, to participate in politics, have the possibility of electing their representatives and changing the laws (Chartist Movement). There was a Great Chartist meeting at Kennington Common (1848). They got more than 3 millions of signatures from workers of UK, to obtain the right of vote. Many workers didn't sign, because they were afraid of losing their work post.
Also, Paqui has explained why we celebrated the Workers' day on the 1st of May.
I made a mistake about the celebration of the 1st of May. I’m going to explain it on a post
the celebration of the 1st of May is related to the Haymarket Affair: a demonstration of workers in Chicago (USA), who asked for an eight hour workday , ended with two workers killed by the police. The
following day, in a pacific concentration in Haymarket Square, a bomb was thrown
(Factory burnt women protesting).
For homework, we have to copy (in our notebook the) Utopian Socialism .
• Charter: Carta (letter with petitions to the goverment).
And, to finish the class, Paqui has given (to) us the exams we did last Thursday about Unit 3
That's all. Bye!
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