A Gallery of Testimonials The Industrial Revolution

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A Gallery of Testimonials The Industrial
Revolution Industrialization Capitalism and
Globalization
MODULE 1 From the Industrial Revolution to the
Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism Manchester A
Case Study in European History
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WHAT AND HOW?

• Task
• To generate a testimonial gallery of scholars,
  thinkers and writers who dealt with the problem
  discussed
• Objectives
• to generate of a multimedia archive
• to focus on thinkersdifferent ideas about
• economic and social transformation processes
• (The Industrial Revolution Industrialization
• Capitalism and Globalization)
• to learn how to synthesize in the English
  language
• Materials (texts, resources, videos, pictures,
  articles, Pc, the Internet, teachers site)
• Text types analysed all the texts studied
• Methodology Group work (cooperative and
  collaborative learning)

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WHY?

• Language skills speaking, reading,
• writing, discussing, interacting,
• public speaking
• Study Skills and Knowledge structure of
  argumentative text, use of literary code, textual
  structural analysis, selection of testimonials,
  quotations,connection with suitable context study
  of resources, spoken and written production,
  interaction
• ICT skills Office (.doc, .ppt), Internet
  surfing, pdf, work with images, Microsoft
  Picture Management)
• What to do with the language ? Competence Use
  language to generate a testimonial gallery

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Testimonials

• Adam Smith
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• Charles Dickens
• Karl Marx
• Samule Smiles
• Winston Churchill
• John Keynes
• Thomas Sowell
• Joseph Schumpeter
• Eric Hoffer
• Deng Xiaoping
• Thomas Friedman
• Naomi Klein
• Riccardo Bellofiore
• Jeanette Winterson
• Luigi Zingales

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Adam Smith (1723-1790)

• Scottish social philosopher, pioneer of political
  economy
• father of modern Economic Science
  (liberalism) large production and capitalism
• "the great object of the Political Economy of
  every country is to increase the riches and power
  of that country".
• Reference text The Wealth of Nations
• Focus Capitalism
• Cross cultural references investigation of the
  causes of wealth
• Critical thinking Capitalism, Political Economy,
  causes of wealth

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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

• French Political thinker and historian
• Liberal position about democracy
• Reference text Journey to England and
  Ireland(1835)
• Focus Manchester
• Cross cultural references J. Bentham, A.
  Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels
• Critical thinking Alienation, exploitation,
  industrialization, unequal distribution of
  wealth, bad working condition, double nature of
  capitalism, Utilitarianism

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• English Victorian novelist
• remarkable characters
• superb telling technique
• symbolic portrait social class contrast
• Reference text Hard Times (1854)
• ?
• Utilitarianism
• Focus Coketown
• Cross cultural references J.Bentham, A.
  Tocqueville , A. Toynbee
• Critical thinking social rift,
  industrialization, wealth versus well-being,
  working class - capitalists

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Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 -1883)

• German philosopher, economist, sociologist,
  historian, journalist, and revolutionary
  socialist
• Critical of his contemporary economy, politic,
  society and culture
• Reference text Das Kapital(1867)
• Focus Capitalism
• Cross cultural references A. Toynbee, F. Engels,
  Luigi Zingales
• Critical thinking industrialization, unequal
  distribution of wealth, money creates wealth

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Samuel Smiles (1812 1904)
Scottish author and reformer. Reference text
Thrift (1875) Focus
Capitalism Cross cultural references K. Marx,
E. Hoffer, T. Sowell, J. Schumpeter Critical
thinking Industrialization, metaphor of the
multi faceted nature of capitalism
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

• British Conservative Politician
• statesman and orator, Nobel Prize for Literature
• twice Prime Minister (194045 and 195155)
• officer in the British Army
• historian, writer, artist
• he received the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Reference Sir W. Churchill Quotes
• Focus Capitalism
• Cross cultural references powerful command of
  the English language, literature
• Critical thinking capitalism, socialism,
  blessing, industrialization, wealth versus
  well-being, working class, army

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John Maynard Keynes(1883 1946)

• British economist
• Founder of modern macroeconomics
• most influential economist of the 20th century.
• His ideas ? basis for the school of thought
  known as Keynesian economics
• Reference text
• The General Theory of Employment Interest and
  Money (1936)
• Focus Capitalism and direct interventions
• Cross cultural references R. Bellofiore
• Critical thinking industrialization,
  Keynesianism, direct intervention on financial
  problems

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Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 -1950)

• An Austrian American economist and political
  scientist.
• Popularized "creative destruction" in economics
• Reference text Capitalism, Socialism and
  Democracy
• Focus Capitalism
• Cross cultural references K. Marx, L. Zingales,
  R. Bellofiore
• Critical thinking industrialization, the
  European financial situation, creative
  destruction

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Deng Xiaoping (1904 1997)

• Politician and reformist leader of the
• Communist Party of China. He led China towards a
  market economy.
• led China towards a market economy.
• Focus Capitalism
• Reference Deng Xiaoping quotes.
• AVideo
• Cross cultural references K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T.
  Sowell, J. Schumpeter
• Critical thinking market economy, to be rich is
  glorious because it gives power and wealth

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Thomas Sowell (1930)

•  American economist, social theorist, political
  philosopher, and author
• conservative thinker of the late 20th century
• America's leading philosopher
• seminal study on the role of Race in history
• explain the principles underlying modern
  economics
• he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes
  from a conservative and libertarian perspective.
• opposes Marxism,
• Reference text Marxism Philosophy and
  Economics.
• Cross cultural references J.Bentham,
  A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,
  Milton Friedman, George Stigler, F. A. Hayek,
  Joseph Schumpeter
• Critical thinking pushiness, justice and
  equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity

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Thomas Friedman (1953)

• American journalist and author.
• twice-weekly column for The N.Y. Times.
• won the Pulitzer Prize three times.
• Reference text The Lexus and the Olive Tree
  Understanding Globalization(1999)
• Focus Free-Market capitalism
• Cross cultural references J.Bentham,
• A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,
• L. Zingales
• Critical thinking global trade, the
• Middle East, globalization, environmental
• issues

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Naomi Klein (1970)

• Canadian author and social activist
• political analyses
• criticism of corporate globalization
• Reference text The Shock Doctrine The Rise of
  Disaster Capitalism (2007)
• Focus Capitalism
• Cross cultural references K. Marx, E. Hoffer, T.
  Sowell, J. Schumpeter
• Critical thinking frontier capitalism shifting
  from crisis to crisis

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Riccardo Bellofiore

• Full professor (University of Bergamo) in
• political Economy
• monetary economics
• history of economic thought
• Reference text article from the Guardian(2011)
  A crisis of Capitalism
• Focus Italian Crisis and Eurozone
• Cross cultural references Karl Marx, Hyman
  Philip Minsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Stuart Holland,
  John Maynard Keynes
• Critical thinking actualization, financial
  problems in Europe

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Jeanette Winterson (1959)

• Contemporary English Writer
• adopted by Pentecostal parents
• boundaries of physicality and the imagination,
  gender polarities, sexual identities
• Reference text
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
• Focus Manchester
• Cross cultural references A. Toynbee, K. Marx,
  F. Engels, C. Dickens
• Critical thinking industrialization, wealth
  versus well-being, working class capitalists,
  process of change, contradictions inside society.

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Luigi Zingales(1963)

• Italian economist and educator
• Winner of 2003 Germán Bernácer Prize to the best
  European economist under 40 working in
  macro-finance.
• Competition is not guaranted by the control
  organisms
• Reference text A Capitalism for the People
  Recapturing the Lost Genius of American
  Prosperity
• (3 June 2012)
• Focus Capitalism
• Cross cultural references Adam Smith, Thomas
  Friedman
• Critical thinking actualization, financial
  problems in Europe

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SKILLS - STUDY PRACTICE FEED-BACK

• Learning skills
• reading,
• manipulating differentstext types
• acquiring a specific vocabulary
• comprehension,
• textual analysis,
• group discussion,
• Selection skills,
• critical thinking,
• gathering of ideas,
• planning,
• drafting,
• redrafting,
• peer proof reading,
• image selection,
• reorganizing,
• generating a .ppt presentation
• generating a .pdf document
• public speaking

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FEEDBACK

• 1. What you have learnt?
• The problems of capitalism and Europeans
  current economic and social situation
• Reading a Postmodern Novel
• Studying essays and argumentative text about the
  problems
• Studying and interpreting qiuotations from
  testimonials works
• interacting in a workgroup
• Selecting relevant data
• Synthesizing concepts
• Writing in English
• Creating a .ppt presentaton
• 2. What could be improved?
• Our comunication skills, precision, time
  organization
• 3. Level of appreciation and usefullness of
  workshop

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WORKSHOP 7CREDITS

• BALDO Sara
• MONGERA Enrico
• MONTANARI Veronica
• TALIAN Lorenzo
• ZANUTTA Riccardo