Economic and Social Change 1918-29
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- Economic and Social change
- Equality for women
- 1918: women aged 30+ got the vote
- 1928: Equal Franchise Act means vote for women 21+
- 1918: 17 of 1,623 candidates were women, only 1 elected
- First 3 MP's took their husband's seats
- Margaret Atwood was the first female member of government in 2928
- After the war, old practices returned
- Released with two weeks wages
- Could be sacked if they married
- Massive wage gap
- Released with two weeks wages
- Single mothers shamed
- Marie Stropes condemned by the church for releasing a birth control book
- Less than 1% of women stayed in education past 18
- Oxford only had 750 places for women
- Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1948
- 1918: women aged 30+ got the vote
- Industrial unrest and General strike
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- Triple alliance formed
- Miners, railwaymen, and transport workers.
- A wave of strikes
- 1910 onwards
- Ended when the war began
- Memberships of trade unions doubled in the war
- Showed that people were unhappy
- After the war, unrest escelated
- Police strike in 1918 and 1919
- Police act passed to stop police striking
- Police strike in 1918 and 1919
- 1920: Unions
- 8 million trade union workers
- 1921: 85 million working days lost to strikes
- After 1921, it was risky to strike because of the risk of being fired
- Employment rates low in main industry: textiles, shipbuilding, coalmining, and steel
- 70,000 workers strike in Glasgow
- 1919, demands for a 40 hour week
- Triple alliance formed
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- Sankey Commission
- Recommend that mines remain under government control
- 1921, returned to previous owners
- Prices droppped along with wages due to depression
- Black Friday
- Renewed in 1919
- April 1921: Strike planned but railways and transport dropped out
- Miners had wages cut
- 1925
- Coal prices drop again
- Wages drop too, and working hours increase
- Triple alliance stuck together to make Red Friday, in July
- Baldwin made subsidy to maintain wages for 9 months
- Samuel Commission
- 1926, recommends No increase in working day, cut wages, modernizing coal pits
- Trade Union Congress threatened total strike due to this
- 1926, recommends No increase in working day, cut wages, modernizing coal pits
- General Strike
- 3rd may, printers refused to print daily mail derogatory words
- 4th may, strike began. 3 million workers strike
- Aggressive propaganda techniques employed by government
- Volunteers
- 226k people volunteered as special constables
- General Strike
- 3rd may, printers refused to print daily mail derogatory words
- 4th may, strike began. 3 million workers strike
- Aggressive propaganda techniques employed by government
- Clashes between volunteers and strikers
- Buses set on fire
- Opposition to the strike grows
- Sankey Commission
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- Clashes between volunteers and strikers
- Buses set on fire
- Opposition to the strike grows
- Trade Union Conference met with Downing Street
- Miners asked to extend strike
- Strike was called off
- Strike was called off
- Miners asked to extend strike
- Government winning propaganda war with TUC
- Government had more cash
- Little support of TUC outside the organisation
- Mine workers after the strike
- Miners carried on striking till novermber
- Mine owners cut wages and lengthened hours
- Union leaders dismissed
- Trades Dispute Act
- Sympathy strikes illegal
- Civil servants can't join unions when they're TUC members
- Clashes between volunteers and strikers
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- Equality for women
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