HURI 1001: Situating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights PDF

HURI 1001: Situating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights K.Francescone Announcements Upcoming Events: Upcoming Assignments/important dates - Presentation James Watson - This afternoon! Watermelon pin -...

HURI 1001: Situating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights K.Francescone Announcements Upcoming Events: Upcoming Assignments/important dates - Presentation James Watson - This afternoon! Watermelon pin - David Morrison Lecture, October sewing + snacks +music organized 9th. Don’t forget to register for by TASA and Faculty4Palestine in the those bonus points! Cottage (1-3) - If you’re in GDST 1001 and HURI - Thursday October 10: Memorial 1001 you can only get these bonus points once. Vigil on the Bridge for Palestine, 12-2 - Next two Mondays there is NO - Next wednesday, protest at CLASS Peterborough Regional Hospital Against Health Care Privatization (11-12) “The progress (onslaught?) of capitalism in the 19th Century brought socialism to the forefront in the struggle for human rights”, Ishay Limits to property as universal right?  Capitalism is an economic system, at present the most What is dominant one in the world, where wage- labour is the Capitalism? most dominant form of work and property is privately owned. It produces inequality based on class. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat.  Living Urbanization Conditions The Industrial Family Revolution in structure England and then elsewhere (18th-19th Century) Mechanizatio More than n technological change, Modern Factory it produced System Pollution revolutionary sociocultural changes changes Work time vs leisure time  First international conference of working peoples “in contrast to old society, with its economical miseries and its ‘First political delirium, a new society is springing up, whose international International’ rule will be Peace, because its national ruler will be everywhere the same – Labour! The pioneer of that new society is the International Working Class International Working Men’s Association” Association (1864, Geneva) Karl Marx, 2014a, p. 239, as cited in Mustu 2021) The Paris Commune (1871) For capitalists and the middle classes, it represented a great threat to the established order. For workers it fueled hopes for a world without exploitation and injustice and galvanized an internationalist worker- led movement for rights. Bio Break - check out the lyrics to the “Internationale” in BB  Positive rights refer to rights that require active provision or Positive positive action from others, particularly the state, to ensure Rights their fulfillment. International Covenant on Economic, Social and C Positive rights are essential for ultural Rights | OHCHR ensuring human dignity to participate fully in society. What was the end result by the end of the 19th Century Victories - Liberal Challenges - Restricted kinds of labour practices - Shift to State-centrism with the rise - The 10 and then 8 hour working day of and consolidation of the Nation- - ‘Special’ labour rights for women and State across Europe (Germany, for children example) - Radical anti-capitalist agenda lost to reforms - ‘Socialist’ vs ‘Liberal’ notions of rights became embedded in the politics of the cold war The International Labour Organization 1919  BREAK OUT ACTIVITY Read the following communication from the IWA to the students of Paris in 1966: 1. What are some of the rights the letter notes are being Are socialist calls for denied human rights solely calls 2. What does it say about the notion of indivisibility and for economic and social about the socialist outlook of rights? rights? What does Ishay say about this?  All human rights are Indivisibility interconnected and equally important. They should not be separated, nor should they be If you don’t have them all, divided. you don’t have any