Marxism & Socialist International A Threat to Nationalism
Solidarity Forever 1st Socialist International in London –Karl Marx one of the Founders –Supported Paris Commune 2nd Socialist International in Paris –Declared May 1st as International Worker’s Day –Declared March 8th as International Women’s Day –Initiated Campaign for 8-hour working day –Famous members: August Bebel; Rosa Luxemburg; Karl Kautsky; Clara Zetkin; Jean Jaurès; Vladimir Lenin
1st International
May Day
Unions & Revisionism
Establishing the Social Order
The Growth of “The City”
Urban Problems As urban population grows…so does disease and crime Edwin Chadwick
Edwin Chadwick: Reforms for the Poor
“Poverty and misery are the parents of crime”
Organized Police Force France: 1829 Serjents Britain: 1850’s The Bobbies
Science & Public Health Louis Pasteur: 1885 vaccine against rabies 1890 vaccine against diphtheria, typhoid & cholera
Joseph Lister …50% of surgery patients died after surgery….
Thomas Crapper ( )
Urban Planning
Introduction of Boulevards
The Model City of Vienna
Class structure and living structure
Mass Transit
From Horse-drawn to Electric
Underground Transportation
The Tube