Unit Labour History in Contemporary Age
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A002067
- Curriculum
- Filosofia e storia
- Teacher
- Paolo Raspadori
- Teachers
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- Paolo Raspadori
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paolo Raspadori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline classiche, storiche, antropologiche e politico-sociali
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to retrace a comparative history of inequality between social classes in human societies, taking into account that over the past two and a half centuries there has been a long-term process aimed at greater social, economic and political equality. Implications regarding uprisings and revolutions, social struggles and crises of all kinds that have played a decisive role in the history of equality, which is also marked by involutional phases and identity drifts, will be explored.
- Reference texts
- Pierluigi Ciocca, Ricchi e poveri. Storia della diseguaglianza, Turin, Einaudi, 2021; Thomas Piketty, Una breve storia dell'uguaglianza, Milan, La nave di Teseo, 2021. Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- Students are expected, on the one hand, to reflect on how the process toward equality has actually occurred. On the other hand, it is expected that students better understand both the struggles and mobilizations that made that process possible and the institutional arrangements and legal, social, fiscal, educational, and electoral systems that enabled equality to become an enduring reality.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to sufficiently understand the topics of the course, students must have acquired, during their schooling, a basic knowledge of the main historical events and processes that occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries in the West and must be familiar with the essential features of 19th and 20th centuries economic history.
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of two parts. The former consists of lectures regarding issues about contents described above. They will be enriched by audiovisual and film screenings and by the illustration of graphs and photos, presented in Power Point format. The later will be held in form of seminar, inviting students to choose a reading about a topic concerned with the lectures and expose it through a classroom discussion (with the aid of a short written text).
- Other information
- To prepare the exam the attendance of lessons is strongly recommended. Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it)
- Learning verification modality
- To pass the exam, attending students must undergo an oral examination, of variable duration depending on the course of the examination itself. The interview aims to verify the levels of knowledge and understanding reached by students with regard to the themes addressed during the course and, at the same time, their capability to communicate with an appropriate language what they have learnt by the lessons and the reading of a recommended text.
Attending students must also participate in a seminar work, that will be held in the last phase of the course, where their capabilities of critical analysis and reworking of a written text (with regard to one topic analyzed) will be tested. Furthermore, students must be able to present the subject of that text to their colleagues and the teacher. With the accomplishment of this activity, the attendees will be required to discuss only one reference textbook in the oral examination. Students not able to attend lessons must prove to have got the knowledge provided by the course in an oral exam, preparing themselves on both of the recommended textbooks. Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- The course aims to retrace a comparative history of inequality between social classes in human societies, taking into account that over the past two and a half centuries there has been a long-term process aimed at greater social, economic and political equality. Implications regarding uprisings and revolutions, social struggles and crises of all kinds that have played a decisive role in the history of equality, which is also marked by involutional phases and identity drifts, will be explored. Starting with an extensive historical examination, a fundamental problem will then be addressed: inequality is not only a moral problem, but also a stop on development.