Social changes 1
Britain 1929-1939 social changes.
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- Created on: 01-12-13 13:43
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- Social changes
- CHANGING POPULATION
- WW1 700,000 Men died.
- 600,000 births didn't occur
- Population decrease 1.3 million
- Healthier population
- Full time employment
- higher incomes
- decrease infant mortality & death rates
- Birth rates fell.
- 2/3 artificial contraceptives.
- Smaller families
- delayed marriages.
- economic crisis.
- Infant mortality & death rate increase.
- DIFFERENT CLASSES
- Upper class
- Smallest, only thousands.
- Land owners, fortunes
- Grip of power easing
- Less well represented in inter war period
- 1928-1921 1/4 of land sold.
- Middle class
- Lower middle class
- Civil servants
- bank clerks
- professional middle class
- Doctors.
- lawyers.
- Same job wages vary.
- bigger houses- servants
- Salaries not wages.
- Variety of different wages & lifestyles.
- better education & health care
- Pensions.
- Lower middle class
- Upper class
- IMPROVED EQUALITY.
- Political rights.
- 1918 women aged 30 to vote
- Women MPs remained scarce.
- 1931 15/615.Peak figure.
- Bandfield first & last female cabinet minister bfeore 1945
- Expected to talk about 'women's issues'
- health.
- education.
- Political rights.
- CHANGING POPULATION
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