social issues 1906-1914
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- Social issues 1906-1914
- Class division
- Middle class-income of professions varied massively beyond of 19th cenurty (middle upper class and the lower middle class)
- working class- 75% of the population, skilled and unskilled workers, unskilled unlikely to provide enough for family and may end up living in poverty
- Poverty
- charles booth+Rowntree- carried out specific estimates of poverty, statistics bigger than the governments
- man cause was due to unemployment and low wages, old age sickness, deaths of mean earner
- 28% of people in york living below the poverty line
- these findings led to new liberalism and was to have an impact on the range of social legislations that were passed after 1906
- changes in taxations and the peoples budget
- taxes had to be introduced to pay for social reforms- taxes on the rich
- House of lords threw the budget out and led to constitutions crisis
- taxes had to be introduced to pay for social reforms- taxes on the rich
- Reason for liberals social and welfare reforms
- the poor had no state intervention as laizeerefaire attitudes which led them to beg
- poor law was there last resort, provisions were inadeqcat
- Socials and Welfare reforms
- Education act 1906- free school meals , but this wasn't compulsory of schools and also medical service in the 1907
- 1908 children act- parental negation become illegal , provide protection for the children
- Old age pension, 1908-provided 5 shillings a week for single person, enabled them to buy food and not live under poverty, but only pid if over 70 and on very low income
- 1911-National insurance act (unemployment)- benefits if unemployed
- 1911- National insurance act for the sick- decreasedas time went on and also was only for people who earns less than £160
- Trade boards set up to fix minimum wages and conditions
- Created a full welfare state, created a life belt. and most poor families gained something from these legislations
- houses still remained short in supplies and no attempt to reform the poor law despite the findings, no reform to education
- Class division
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