5.3 the social question

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The Time of Citizens and Steam Engines

5.3 The social question

Todays lesson goals

1. you can explain what the social question is.
2. you can name the three ways that provided better  conditions for workers.

What was it like to work during the 19th century?

• Especially in cities a lot of misery.
  
• Workers were exploited and lived in poor conditions.
• More and more people spoke about this in public, like journalists and doctors.

 --> the discussion about the social question

working and living in poverty

Social laws 

the poor

the church

the government

the social question

• Social laws could provide support and protection for the socially weak.
• 1874, het kinderwetje van Van Houten was passed by the Eerste en Tweede Kamer. 
• End of all child labour -> 1901: Compulsory Education Act 

How does this cartoon relate to the social question?

The factory owner:

'Last month you had five full days off to give birth, now you have to leave for another day to put the child under the ground, where is my business going now?'

Work in pairs:

What two other ways, besides the social laws, can you find in the text (5.3), which provided better conditions for workers?

done? raise your hand!

• Socialists --> more equality and less difference between rich and poor.
  
• Radical socialists (Marxists) --> a revolution to ensure that the means of production came into the hands of the state.
• Later, moderate socialists --> change through political parties in the government and social laws.

Socialists and socialism

Karl Marx

Todays lesson goals

1. you can explain what the social question is.
2. you can name the three ways that provided better  conditions for workers.

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