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5.3 The social issue

Citizens and Steamenigines

The social issue
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This lesson contains 36 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 45 min

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Citizens and Steamenigines

The social issue

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Goal
At the end of the lesson you can explain what the social issue includes

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What could the social issue be?

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What is the social issue? (1)
  • An issue is a problem

  • Bad work and life circumstances of the working class

  • End 19th century.

  • Mainly in cities

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What is the social issue? (2)
  • The rich get richer, the poor get poorer'

  • Only 'the rich' can vote

  • This keeps 'the rich' in power

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Note: The weekly income of a male labourer
was about 900 cents (9 guilders)

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Who were helping the workers?

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Who is helping the workers? (1)
  • Some manufacturers did give the workers some extras (sometimes also out of self-interest: a fitter worker works harder...)

Workers go on strike: this only works if everyone goes on strike, and that was difficult to maintain

Workers start working together in unions.

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Who is helping the workers? (2)


The Netherlands has three major political groups: socialists (left), confessionals (centre) and liberals (right).

These political groups all have a different solution for the Social Question, but also all have their own interests

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Who were helping the workers?

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Liberals


Let the economy run its course

Social laws cost too much money

Right-wing politics

Manufacturers


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Confessionalists
  • Confession=faith (Protestant/Roman Catholic)

Inequality because God wants it that way

Good Christians help each other

Employers and employees must come to an agreement together


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Socialists
  • Government must do everything to protect workers

Better working conditions (including higher wages)

To achieve this: fight for universal suffrage (also with strikes and demonstrations)

Left in politics


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Feminism



  • Women who stand up for the (equal) rights of women
  • Such as the right to vote and be admitted to universities

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Slow improvement
  • First social laws from 1874 onwards: Van Houten Children Act

  • Compulsory Education Act (1900)

  • Housing Act (1901)

  • 1917: Universal suffrage for men

  • 1919: Universal suffrage for women


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Vereeniging voor 
Vrouwenkiesrecht (VVVK)


Wilhelmina Drucker
Aletta Jacobs

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Tegenstanders
  • 'Onfatsoenlijk'

  • 'De rol van de vrouw is binnenshuis'

  • 'De vrouw is een moeder'

  • 'Politiek is geen plek voor vrouwen'

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Video
Vroeger en zo: Aletta strijdt voor vrouwen

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Terms in the lesson


  • Social question
  • night watchman state
  • Liberals
  • social democrats
  • confessionals
  • feminism




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Persons in the lesson

  • Samuel van Houten
  • Aletta Jacobs

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Dates in the lesson

  • 1874: Van Houten Child Act
  • 1900: Compulsory Education Act
  • 1901: Housing Act
  • 1917: Universal suffrage for men
  • 1919: Universal suffrage for women

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Ask 1 question about something you have not understood so well in this lesson

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