LABOUR MOVEMENT.

1.Mention some laws achieved by workers in England improving their work conditions.

By many strikes and demonstrations, the working people got 8 hours labour, increase in their wages, more rights without working exploitation and improving their conditions.

2.What happened the first of May?

It was the day of the demand for 8 hour f work. There were many riots and demonstrations in cities such as Chicago or Barcelona. At the days is the Labour Day.







3.Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?

Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status. They want the same rights like men.

Emily Wilding Davison (1872 -1913) was a militant women's suffrage activist. She was arrested and imprisoned for various offences, including a violent attack on a man she mistook for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George. She went on hunger strike in Strangeways Prison and was force-fed. In Holloway prison, she threw herself down an iron staircase as a protest. She lost her teacher job, and she was trampled by the horse of King George V, at the Epsom Derby. She died four days later.

THE CRASH 1929 AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 2007

The similarities between both crisis are: that the two crisis started in the USA, at the beginning the prices grew up very fast, and when it picked up, the prices of the shares or of the houses down. The speculation is one of the most important causes of these crisis.

IMAGINE

IMAXINA. JOHN LENNON.

Imaxina que non exista o ceo,
é fácil se o intentas.
Sen o Inferno debaixo nosa,
arriba de nós, só o ceo.
Imaxina a toda a xente,
vivindo para hoxe…
Imaxina que non hay países,
non é difícil de facer.
Ninguén por quen matar ou morrer,
nin tampouco relixión.
Imaxina a toda a xente vivindo a vida en paz…

Podes dicir que son un soñador,
pero non son o único,
espero que algún día te unas a nós,
e o mundo vivirá como un.

Imaxina que non hai posesións,
quixera saber si podes,
sen necesidade de gula ou fama,
unha irmandade de homes.
Imaxínate a toda a xente compartindo o mundo.

Podes dicir que son un soñador,
pero non son o único,
espero que algún día te unas a nós,
e o mundo vivirá como un.

VIETNAM WAR.

Vietnam War was a military conflict that started 1 November 1955 and finished 15 May 1975 when the Mayaguez Incident concluded. It was a part of the Cold War occurred in these countries: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The war occurred between South Vietnam supported by the Americans and North Vietnam supported by the communists. On the other side of North Vietnam killed 10 times more than in the South. Still, after the war ended with the victory of communist, North over the South, the Vietnam War was marked in the moral as the second defeat in military history of the United States after the Korean War. This war is considerate too, the Second Indochina War.

Really modern times

In this video Charles Chaplin criticizes the society. The hard work they did that most people were exploited, then get very low wages.

He criticizes industry and the desire to make money, the inequality suffred by society.

CHILDREN IN VICTORIAN TIMES

During the Industrial Revolution, women, men, and also children worked in factories and coal mines. In Victorian times, the coal was very important in the industry, and the children were exploited. They pushed trucks of coal along mine tunnels wherefore they were called 'putters'. Many children started work at 2 in the morning and stayed below ground for 18 hours.

This children, mostly poor, couldn´t go to the school, because their families couldn´t pay it. Only rich children went to the school and learnt. But fortunately , by 1880, the law said that all children aged 5 to 10 must go to primary school, so every child would receive at least a basic education.

Many Victorian children were poor and worked to help their families. Families got no money so they must work. The Industrial Revolution created new jobs, in factories and mines. Many of these jobs were at first done by children, because children were cheaper than adults.

WORKING WITH PRESS