LABOUR MOVEMENT


1. Mention some laws achieved by workers in England inproving their work conditions.
The 8-hour work day, insure workers against unemployement or ill and the negotation of wages.

2. What happened the First of May?
The workers of the United States got the 8-hour work day on this day. It's call Labour Day or May Day.

3. Look for information about the suffragettes? Who was Emily Davison?
The suffragette is a term for the member of the movement for the women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, specially for the members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The women wanted to be treated as equals to men. The term of this movement come from "suffrage". It is the right that the women wanted: the right to vote.

Emily Davison was militant women's suffrage activist who was trampled by the King George V's horse on 4 June 1913. She died four days later.




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