3a: Class and social values | 1 Class, social change and the impact of the wars, 1918-51
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- How far people's attitudes changed as a result of the two world wars
- The impact of the First World War
- Decline in deference
- High death toll shook confidence in upper class leaders
- Trench life - working/middle-class interaction
- Social class still = status
- Decline in the upper classes
- Disproportionately high death toll
- Death duties (c.1894) -> 'decline of the aristocracy' - sale of lands/stately homes
- National Trust/ schools/ hotels/ disrepair
- Greater equality
- Democratic advancement (1918 RoP Act)
- Interwar - improvement in living standards
- Construction of houses for owner-occupiers (especially suburbs)
- Metroland
- Construction of houses for owner-occupiers (especially suburbs)
- Surplus income - more affluent life than parents
- Decline in deference
- Class and social values between the wars
- Fears of open class revolt (e.g. Clydeside)
- Long-term economic factors
- Working-class deference
- 1926 - General Strike
- Strikes actually in decline/conservative cross-party dominance
- Great Depression undermined working-class solidarity
- Union membership declined (unemployment)
- Growth of light-industry (Midlands/southeast)
- Great Depression undermined working-class solidarity
- Fears of open class revolt (e.g. Clydeside)
- the impact of the Second World War
- Social revolution
- Homelessness through bombing/ Evacuation/ rationing led to co-operation
- Desire for post-war equality amongst working-classes
- little social change/ class distinctions were reinforced
- Evacuation of city kids to affluent homes reinforced class prejudice
- 1939: 'bed wetting' phemonema - hosts blamed poor living standards
- Post-war attitudes
- State intervention - change in government's role
- Labour/ nationalisation/ welfare state - changed state's role
- Class/privilege/ deference remained - HoL/Eton/Harrow
- Attlee less class revolt, more an end to 30s hardships
- Social revolution
- The impact of the First World War
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