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Read the text and answer the following questions
SOURCE 1: “Workers in the (industrial) colony go in saying the rosary and leave praying. In the factory there is a priest and six nuns, where they have a huge and delightful home. There are more than one thousand people in the colony; children start working at six years of age, workers are crowded together in filthy rooms and the employer, because of the colony’s privileges, pays 2.000 pesetas of industrial subsidy where before he paid more than 8000… Workers are prohibited from reading other newspapers than Catholic and are forced to buy all their food in the colony’s canteen. By Sunday morning or Saturday evening, the employer already has back all the week’s wages that he has just paid. It is an exchange, not a payment. The money goes from the manufacturer’s safe to the worker’s hand and back to the manufacturer’s, through the grocery store, that is his, the coffee shop, the bakery, housing… that are also his…” La Publicidad, May 7, 1891 |
SOURCE 2: “La Campana de Gràcia”, 03-05-1890. Font (premsa històrica) |
Questions:
- Source 2:
What kind of source is it ? (5-6 lines) (2 points)
(Textual, iconographical, statistical, cartographical, public/private: Picture, image, text, map...) - Source 1:
What powerful words and ideas are expressed in this source ? (5-6 lines) (2 points) - Source 1 (7-8 lines) (2 points):
3.1. What were labour and
3.2. life conditions like in industrial colonies, according to the source 1? - Which were the demands of the labour movement in 1854? Who was Josep Barceló?(5-6 lines) (2 points)
- Source 2 (4-5 lines) (2 points):
According to this source, which were the demands of the labour movement? What was the first of May?.
Vocabulary |
Parliamentary commissioners: comissionats parlamentaris. Textil, factories, Luddites: luddites. Wage: vaga |
Useful sentences: | This text clearly shows that… Working and living conditions were…. Today every citizenship // the age of 18 // Will can vote Universal suffrage was… until. Women had not the right of vote until… It was a fraudulent vote……. Letting everyone vote was not It wasn’t easy to achieve…. Privileged people decided …. Colonies were… |
To improve your knowledge
- Study Resources Lliurament 2 Catalan and English
Primary Sources: Children in the Industrial Revolution (link)