Living Standards, Britain
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- Created on: 16-03-16 21:18
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- Living Standards
- Real Income
- The money that the individual is able to spend. e.g. money received without tax etc.
- Living standards improved for most Britons because prices fell faster than wages
- Increase in the use of contraception meant that family sizes shrank. (1880s- 4.6, 1920s- 2.19 average.)
- Health and Diet
- Many people died during the war or got mental and physical injuries.
- Decline in alcohol consumption. Rationing led to healthier eating. Evacuations proved the poor quality of food.
- Whilst the quality of hospitals improved, it was a "postcode lottery".
- Regional Variations
- Trad. indust.(shipbuilding/ coal mining.) that were heavily reliant upon exports did less well than larger service sector indust. and newer indust.
- Unemploy and long term unemploy. 1944 Beveridge 85% long term North.
- Consumption reflected regional wealth variations. Cars, electrification of homes.
- Real Income
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