An Era of “Isms”: The Labor Movement; Socialism; and Women’s Emancipation

I. Introduction

A. Announcements

1. On October 25^th, our class will meet in Drinko 130

2. Midterms will be returned next week. Do see me w/ feedback for final

3. AQWF reading questions on line.

B. Review: Ideologies in aftermath of 1848 revolution

C. Framing Questions

1. what ideologies and movements mark the late 19th century? Were these ideologies and movements specific to this period? How do they change over time?

2. are different ideologies and movements more influential in some countries than others? Why or why not?

3. what was the relationship of the social movements, ideologies etc to the social, political and economic changes of the time

II. Significant Changes, 1870-1900

A. France

B. Germany

C. Britain

D. Dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary

E. Russia

F. Second Industrial Revolution

III. Ideologies and Social Movements of the late 19th Century, 1871-1914

A. Nationalism

B. Liberalism

C. Conservatism

D. Unionism

E. Socialism

1. Marxist Influenced Movements (international parties)

2. Revisionism (Parliamentary Movements)

3. Fabians

4. Anarchists

5. Syndicalism

F. “Woman-Question” and Early Feminism

1. introduction

2. Example England

a. Liberal wing

b. radical wing

3. New Woman

G. Naturalism

H. Irrationalism

Questions:

For section:

1. what ideologies and movements mark the late 19th century? Were these ideologies and movements specific to this period? How do they change over time?
2. are different ideologies and movements more influential in some countries than others? Why or why not?
3. what was the relationship of the social movements, ideologies etc to the social, political and economic changes of the time
4. Who was E. Pankhurst? What anecdotes does she recall in her narrative? What strategies did her group of suffragists embrace?
5. For next lecture: How does Jules Ferry describe the political and economic system of colonial expansion? How does he justify colonial expansion? What country’s colonial expansion is he defending?

TERMS

Prusso-French war

Paris Commune

Communards

Bonapartists, Orleanists, and Bourbons

Kulturkampf

Anti-Socialist Laws

Act of Union (1801)

Home Rule Act (1914)

Alexander II

Alexander III

Nationalism

Liberalism

William Gladstone

Conservatism

Xenophobia

Unionism

Matchgirl strike

First International

Second International

Revisionism (Parliamentary Socialism)

Labour Movement

French Socialist Party

German Social Democratic Party

Eduard Bernstein

SPD

Fabians

Anarchists

Syndicalism

“Woman-Question”

Early Feminism

Millicent Fawcett

Women’s Social and Political Union

Emmeline Pankhurst

Naturalism

Émile Zola

Leo Tolstoy

Henrik Ibsen

Irrationalism

Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

Friedrich Nietzsche