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THE LABOUR MOVEMENT - Coggle Diagram
THE LABOUR MOVEMENT
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THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL
Proletarian internationalism emerged in the 1860s. In 1864, the International Working Men’s Association (IWA) was founded in London. It was later called the First International. The aim of the IWA was to combine the forces of all workers to fight for emancipation under the slogan ‘Workers of the world, unite.
The most important thinkers of this period, Marx and Bakunin, were the First International's leaders, but they clashed over their different stances on the proletariat’s involvement in politics.
The differences of opinion between Marxists and anarchists were so great that the First International was dissolved in 1876.
HISTORICAL CHANGES
Factory jobs offered poor conditions, with working hours of up to 16 hours and no right to holidays. There was also a lot of job insecurity and exploitation as there were no rights to protect workers.
Child labour was quite common in Britain during the early years of the Industrial Revolution. Poor children often worked in factories and mines under dangerous or dreadful conditions.