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Anti-high prices and social unrest in the Brandýs nad Labem district after the First World War
Slovák, Vojtěch ; Pokorný, Jiří (advisor) ; Čurda, Vojtěch (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the development of the labor movement in the Brandýs nad Labem district after the First World War in 1919-1921 and ends with the establishment of the district Communist Party. Its aim is to describe the social unrest that took place in the district after the First World War. The first chapter describes the development of the labor movement throughout the Czechoslovakia from the end of the war through the hunger and anti-poverty riots to the struggle in the CSDSD, the occupation of the People's House, the General Strike of December and the founding of the Communist Party. The second chapter presents the development of the economy in the various towns of the district, which consisted mainly of the chemical and metalworking industries and agriculture. The third chapter describes the beginnings and development of the labour movement from the mid-19th century to the emergence of the Czechoslovakia from a regional perspective. The fourth chapter focuses on the actual anti-labour riots, strikes, demonstrations and the reactions of the administration to them. The fifth chapter analyses aspects of these events in the Brandýs nad Labem district.
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Poverty, Pauperism and Social Question as Public Discourses in the Habsbburg Monarchy in the Era "Vormärz" and Revolution of 1848/1849
Raška, Jakub ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Petrbok, Václav (referee)
(in English): This paper deals with early views on industrial pauperism in texts intended for a public reading in the western part of the Habsburg monarchy during the pre-March period (here 1830-1848) and at the time of the revolution in 1848-1849. The main observed phenomenon is the dynamics of social and political imagination of the Austrian society in a relation to structural processes of European modernization. On two basic areas, journalism and literature, it explores development of views on the mass poverty from the general romantic rejection of modernization process to the proposals for solutions of the social question, which were formulated on the basis of affiliation to any political camp, for example, education by liberalism or the welfare state by socialism. The work does not deal so much with a thinking of big personalities of social theory, but rather focuses on the everyday negotiations dichotomy of "old" and "new", which was led by nowadays more or less forgotten authors.
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Labor Movement in Minnesota as a Means of Struggle for Equality of African Americans in Minnesota: Activism of Nellie Stone Johnson
Navrátilová, Barbora ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kýrová, Lucie (referee)
The diploma thesis Labor Movement as a Means of Struggle for Equality of African Americans in Minnesota: Activism of Nellie Stone Johnson analyzes the role of the Labor Movement in a struggle for equality of African Americans in a state that belongs on the periphery of academic research of African American population of the United States of America. In the first two chapters, the study uses the probe method, which analyzes the manifestations of the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement of the African Americans in Minnesota within a historical context. In case of both movements, key influences and actors are primarily identified. The second chapter then analyzes in more detail the impact of racism and discrimination on the Labor Movement's development, and vice versa, the struggle of the Labor Movement to overcome racial segregation. In the third chapter, the case study relies on the biographical method and the oral history method. Using these methods, this chapter constructs a specific story of activist Nellie Stone Johnson, whose life demonstrates the importance of combining quality education with economic self-sufficiency for the success of the African American struggle for racial equality in Minnesota. Nellie Stone Johnson came from a farming background that was traditional for Minnesota...
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Mother - a TV series that failed. The use of ideology and propaganda in dramatic production
Gregorová, Gabriela ; Suk, Pavel (advisor) ; Růžička, Daniel (referee)
The topic of the diploma thesis is the encoding of an ideological message in normalization series of Czechoslovak Television, specifically in the series Matka (Mother). This nine-part television saga was filmed in 1975 on the occasion of the XV Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, planned for April 1976. Most normalization series had one thing in common - through the story of ordinary people, with whom the viewers could easily identify - they passed to the viewers the attitudes, the system of rules or the interpretation of history seen through the prism of the ruling party. The series Matka also followed this practice, and using the story of a woman - a laundress - showed the development of the labour movement in Bohemia. The theoretical part of the thesis consists of clarifying the concepts - ideology, propaganda and normalization; at the same time, it reflects the history of Czechoslovak Television and its importance as one of the most powerful tools of propaganda in the period of normalization. In this respect, television series, due to the immense popularity with TV viewers, were very effective. Therefore, their essence and thematic focus in the context of the social climate are analyzed in the theoretical part, too. The used methodology, identifying and interpreting the...
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Poverty, Pauperism and Social Question as Public Discourses in the Habsbburg Monarchy in the Era "Vormärz" and Revolution of 1848/1849
Raška, Jakub ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Petrbok, Václav (referee)
(in English): This paper deals with early views on industrial pauperism in texts intended for a public reading in the western part of the Habsburg monarchy during the pre-March period (here 1830-1848) and at the time of the revolution in 1848-1849. The main observed phenomenon is the dynamics of social and political imagination of the Austrian society in a relation to structural processes of European modernization. On two basic areas, journalism and literature, it explores development of views on the mass poverty from the general romantic rejection of modernization process to the proposals for solutions of the social question, which were formulated on the basis of affiliation to any political camp, for example, education by liberalism or the welfare state by socialism. The work does not deal so much with a thinking of big personalities of social theory, but rather focuses on the everyday negotiations dichotomy of "old" and "new", which was led by nowadays more or less forgotten authors.
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Historiography of the Communist Party and the Working Class Movement and its Institutionalisation at the Faculty of Arts - Charles University in years 1953-1970
Calta, Jan ; Rákosník, Jakub (advisor) ; Sommer, Vítězslav (referee)
(in English): This work deals with the formation of party historiography in fifties and sixties of the twentieth century. It examines this issue in two ways. The first level is the institutionalization of party historiography at Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Establishment, development and abolition of the department of the History of the Communist party (History of Working class movement) is explored with focusing on key turning points in 1953 (establishment of the department), 1958 (restriction of teaching staff), 1964 (reorganization, merger and establishment of the department of the History of Working class movement) and 1970 (abolition of the department). Teaching staff is examined and attention is paid to the efforts to create typological profile of chair historians, who were part of emerging generation of party historians. The second level of the research is the participation of party historians in shaping and formulating new historical narratives, that provided legitimazing framework of communist project to social transformation. Attention is paid to possibilities and limits of party historiography in social and political context and its methodological base is also examined. The development of party historiography is divided into three phases - the phase of stalinist discourse, the...
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Luděk Pik: political profile of eminent mayor of Pilsen
Bartoš, Jakub ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
The aim of the thesis: to capture the life of the Czech social democratic politician and former mayor of Pilsen, Luděk Pik, with a specific focus on his political activities in the city. This thesis also aims to understand and clarify Pik's relation to Pilsen and the relevance to his life, as well as his essential role in the history of this West Bohemian metropolis. Luděk Pik (18. 5. 1876 Prague - 19. 4. 1948 Pilsen) lived in Pilsen for almost five decades of his life (1901-1948), except the period during the Nazi occupation (1939- 1945). Since 1901 he worked in Pilsen for the Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Workers Party, where he quickly became the local party elite. At the end of the World War I he participated in the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state. In 1919-1938 he served continuously as mayor of the city of Pilsen and significantly contributed to its modernization and development. He also sat in Cisleithanian and Czechoslovakian legislatures. After the Munich Treaty he was forced to stand down from his political status and was persecuted during the Nazi occupation. The post-war situation prevented his return to a public life. His memoirs and especially his literary works demonstrate his strong patriotic relation to this city. Luděk Pik represents, in modern history of...
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The working class leaders sight upon the development of the labour movement in Bohemia lands, 1870 - 1890
Uher, Tomáš ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Fasora, Lukáš (referee)
The actual focus of the bachelor thesis is to analyze the memoirs of labour leaders. Interpretive emphasis is placed on the use of socio-historical, politico historical and culture- anthropological approach of the topic. Therefore, the author focus mainly on the formative experiences of the author's memoirs, i. e. on their experiences with social, cultural, economic and ethnic background and environment, especially the experiences of poverty, humiliation, disqualification of social progress, exploitation by employer, gender and spiritual oppression. Supplementary source is the analysis of newspaper articles in contemporary periodicals. Methodological suggestions will be drawn from literature.
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Division in the social-democratic movement in Austria-Hungary in the 80s in the 19th century
Jůza, Robert ; Doubek, Vratislav (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the division in the social-democratic movement in Austria- Hungary in the '80s of the 19th century. The programmatic documents of the party are analyzed from the point of view of controversial points of the division. The workers movement was split into groups of moderates and radicals. These groups polemized about tactics, which would lead to the achievement of goals of proletariat. The goals were the same for both groups, change to classless society and collectivization of production. There are programmatic documents putting an end to the division examined as well. First of they are all looked into from the points of view, whether they are closer connected with perspectives of moderates or radicals.
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