Gallery of testimonials

Differents points of view about capitalism:

A Gallery of Testimonials

MODULE 1From the Industrial Revolution to the Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism

Manchester: A Case Study in European History

WORKSHOP 6CREDITS

• BALDO Sara

• MONGERA Enrico

• MONTANARI Veronica

• TALIAN Lorenzo

• ZANUTTA Riccardo

WHAT AND HOW?

Task: Gallery of testimonialsObjectives: To create a mental archive useful to bring into focus the thinkers’ ideas about capitalism as a process which has modified the architecture and the social structure. Materials: (texts, resources, videos, pictures, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site)Text types analysed: Memoir, Articles, EssaysMethodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

WHY?

Language skills: speaking, reading, writing, discussing, interacting, public speakingStudy Skills and Knowledge: structure of argumentative text, use of literary code,textual structural analysis,selection of resources,critical interpretation of resources, spoken and written production, interactionICT skills: Office(.doc, .ppt), Internet surfing, pdf…What to do with the language Competence:Creating a gallery of testimonials

SKILLS - STUDY PRACTICE FEED-BACK

Learning skills

reading, manipulating differents texts’typologies 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

FEEDBACK

1. What you have learnt? Selecting resources, news about capitalism and the

current economic and social situation in Europe, interacting in a workgroup.

2.What could be improved more?

3.Level of appreciation and usefullness of workshop: We appreciated this work beacuse it was useful to

learn new details about economy

Testimonials

• Alexis de Tocqueville• Thomas Sowell• Charles Dickens• Jeanette Winterson • Riccardo Bellofiore’s journal article• Luigi Zingales

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

French Political thinker and historian

Liberal position about democracy,

Reference text: Journey to England and Ireland

Focus: Manchester

Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,,

Critical thinking: alienation, exploitation, industrialization,, inequal distribution of wealth, bad working condition, double nature of capitalism,utilitarism

German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist

Critical of his contemporary economy, politic, society and culture

Reference text: Das Kapital

Focus: Capitalism

Cross cultural references: A. Toynbee, K. Marx, Luigi Zingales

Critical thinking:industrialization,, inequal distribution of wealth, money creates wealth

Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 -1883)

Joseph Alois Schumpeter(1883 -1950)

An Austrian American economist and political scientist.

Popularized the term "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

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

English Victorian novelist

remarkable characters

superb telling technique

symbolic portrait social class contrast

Reference text: Hard Times

Utilitarianism

Focus: Coketown

Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A. Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels, L. Zingales,

Critical thinking: alienation, exploitation, industrialization, facts versus fancy, wealth versus well-being, working class - capitalists

 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.

Cross cultural references: J.Bentham, A.Tocqueville , A. Toynbee, K. Marx, F. Engels,,

Critical thinking: pushiness, justice and equality, civil rights, race and ethnicity

Thomas Sowell (1930)

British Conservative Politician

statesman and orator

twice Prime Minister (1940–45 and 1951–55)

officer in the British Army

historian, writer, artist

he received the Nobel Prize in Literature

Focus: Capitalism

Cross cultural references:

Critical thinking: capitalism, socialism, blessing, industrialization, wealth versus well-being, working class, army

Winston Churchill(1874-1965)

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.

Jeanette Winterson (1959)

An economist and educator, and the winner of the 2003 Germán Bernácer Prize to the best European economist under 40 working in macro-finance.

Competition isn’t guaranted by the control organisms

Reference text: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

Focus: Capitalism

Cross cultural references: Adam Smith,

Critical thinking: actualization, financial problems in Europe

Luigi Zingales(1963)