Public University of Navarre



Castellano | Euskara | Academic year: 2021/2022 | Previous academic years:  2020/2021  |  2019/2020  |  2018/2019  |  2017/2018 
Bachelor's degree in Labour Relations and Human Resources at the Universidad Pública de Navarra
Course code: 352101 Subject title: CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AND HISTORY OF LABOR RELATIONS
Credits: 6 Type of subject: Basic Year: 1 Period: 1º S
Department: Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación
Lecturers:
GARCIA FUNES, JUAN CARLOS (Resp)   [Mentoring ] YANIZ BERRIO, EDURNE   [Mentoring ]

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Module/Subject matter

 History

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Contents

 The subject addresses the social-labor history of the Western world during the contemporary age, giving greater emphasis to the Spanish case. The interpretive criterion chosen to explain the content is that of the interdependence between political evolution and socio-economic evolution. Initially, we choose to follow the chronological order of the phenomena from the French Revolution or until today. If possible, by the perception that the first day (of class) of the level of the students may have, it would be decided to invest that order starting from the current situation to go back to the (British) Industrial and French Revolutions of the late Eighteenth Century. It seeks to relate in a comparative way the different periods and events of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries to, in this way, understand the dynamics of socio-political and socio-economic evolution of the Contemporary Era. At the end of the course, the parallelism between the crises of the XXth-XXIst, XIXth-XXth and XVIIIth-XIXth centuries should be quite clear; the process of establishment and consolidation of the liberal and democratic State; as well as the link between the capitalist system and the democratic system, both in the political sphere and in the labour sphere.

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General proficiencies

GP1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis
GP2. Organizational and planning skills
GP6. Ability to manage information
GP13. Critical thinking

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Specific proficiencies

SP4. Relating the processes of social change from a historical and
sociological perspective.
SP8. Prepare opinions, write reports and make presentations on the
different areas of labor relations.

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Learning outcomes

-Communicate correctly orally and in writing using appropriate language.
 
-Organize and plan the study of the subjects involved. -Select and manage
the most relevant information in the field of each subject involved. 
-Analyze and synthesize the most relevant aspects of each subject and
reach their own conclusions. - Critical reasoning to reach your own
conclusions.

- Ability to contextualize, compare and critically analyze the phenomena,
events and processes that take place in historical evolution of labor,
labor relations and labor markets. - Ability to make reports on aspects
related to the temporal analysis of work from the late Eighteenth Century
to the present time

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Methodology

Methodology - Activity Hours % To be attended
Theoretical classes 45 100
Essays and case studies 20 0
Debates, group discussion and presentations 20 40
Reading complementary material 20 40
Conferences and other academic activities  7,5 0
(Private) study and exam 37,5 5

 

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Evaluation

Learning outcomes   Evaluation activities   %   can be retaken   Assessment Retake forms
R30- Communicate correctly orally and in writing using appropriate terminology R141- Organize and plan the study of the subjects involved R7- Reasoning critically to reach your own conclusions;   Attendance and participation in the lectures and practices                 5             0  
R 10- Analyze and synthesize the most relevant aspects of each subject and reach your own conclusions R157- Ability to produce reports on aspects related to the temporal analysis of work from the end of the 18th century to the present.   Presentation of papers         25       YES     New paper submission
R115- Select and manage the most relevant information in the field of each subject involved   Case studies and tests           20         YES         Resit exam
R82- Ability to contextualize, compare and critically analyze the phenomena, events and processes taking place in the historical evolution of work, labor relations and labor markets R30-Communicate correctly orally and in writing using appropriate terminology   Theoretical exam           50           YES         Resit exam

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Agenda

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS 

 

0. INTRODUCTION.

1. THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 

2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF LIBERAL REVOLUTIONS.

3. THE POLITICAL AND TRADE UNION ORGANISATION PROCESSES OF THE WORKING CLASS.

4. LABOUR AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS DURING THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. THE IMPERIALIST EXPANSION.

5. CONVULSIVE TIMES: WAR AND REVOLUTION.

6. CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND LABOUR DURING THE 1930S.

7. FROM THE POSTWAR PERIOD TO THE CRISIS.

8. LABOUR RELATIONS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD.

9. POLITICS AND ECONOMY IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN. 

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Bibliography

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In this subject there is no single manual, but in each of the topics will be marked one or more articles and chapters of books whose contents, explained and extended in class by the professor and worked through practical exercises, will constitute the basis on which will be raised the final exam.

 

While these readings will be detailed at the beginning of each theme, there are some general works that can be useful to students to follow the development of the subject:

 

General bibliography

- AIZPURU, M. y RIVERA, A. (1994). Manual de Historia Social del Trabajo. Madrid: Siglo XXI.

- ARACIL, R., OLIVER, J., SEGURA, A. (1995). El mundo actual. De la Segunda Guerra Mundial a nuestros días. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona.
- AROSTEGUI, J., BUCHRUCKER, C. y SABORIDO, J. (2001). El Mundo contemporáneo: Historia y sus problemas. Barcelona: Crítica.
- ARTOLA, M. y PEREZ LEDESMA, M. (2005). Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776. Madrid: Alianza.
- COMÍN, F., HERNÁNDEZ, M., y LLOPIS, E., (Eds.) (2010). Historia económica mundial, siglos X-XX. Barcelona: Crítica.
- FERRO, M. (1997). Colonization: A Global History. London: Routledge.
- FONTANA, J. (2019). Capitalismo y democracia, 1756 - 1848. Como comenzó el engaño. Barcelona: Crítica.
- FONTANA, J. (2017). El siglo de la revolución. Una historia del mundo desde 1914. Barcelona: Crítica.
- FONTANA, J. (2011). Por el bien del imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Barcelona: Pasado y Presente.
- HOBSBAWM, E. (1996). The age of revolution: Europe 1789 -1848. New York: Vintage books edition.
- HOBSBAWM, E. (1996). The age of capital: 1848 ¿ 1875. New York: Vintage Books edition.
- HOBSBAWM, E. (1994). The age of extremes: a history of the world, 1914 ¿ 1991. New York: Pantheon Books (division of Random House).
- HOBSBAWM, E. (2014). Worlds of Labour. London: Orion Publishing Co.
- KERSHAW, Ian (2018). Roller - Coaster: Europe, 1950 ¿ 2017. London: Penguin Press.

- KERSHAW, Ian (2015). To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914 ¿ 1949. London: Allen Lane.
- MARICHAL, C. (2010). Nueva historia de las grandes crisis financieras. Una perspectiva global,  1873-2008.  Barcelona: Debate.
- MARKS, R. (2007). The origins of the Modern World. Lanham (Maryland): Rowman & Litllefield Publisher.
- MARTINEZ, J. (2006). Historia Contemporánea. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanc. (Acceso on-line desde la biblioteca: http://biblioteca.tirant.com/cloudLibrary/ebook/show/9788499851723)
- NUÑEZ SEIXAS, X. (2015). Las utopías pendientes. Una breve historia del mundo desde 1945. Barcelona: Crítica.
- OSTERHAMMEL, J. (2014). The transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century. Princeton (New Jersey; Oxford: Princeton University Press.
- PIKETTY, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Cambridge (Massachusetts); London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
- VILLARES, R. Y BAHAMONDE, A. (2001). El Mundo Contemporáneo. Siglos XIX y XX. Madrid: Taurus.

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Languages

English

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