Social Development
- Created by: Jasmin
- Created on: 30-04-13 20:33
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- Social Development
- More money to spend on leisure
- Car - freedom to travel,people move to suburbs so can drive to work
- Radio - 1921 only 1 licensed station, in 1923 - 508
- Jazz - dancehalls
- Films - cinemas built for up to 4000 to sit, silent until 1927, Hollywood major film making centre
- Changing manners and morals
- Young people
- Smoking, dancing, cocktail parties - sexual freedom
- Lipstick, shorter skirts, high heels (FLAPPERS) short hair
- Church attendence fell
- Divorce rate increased
- Young people
- More freedom/independence
- Films, songs, paperbacks encouraged new fashions and freedom
- Women encouraged to gain economic independence
- Employment for women cheaper than men - wage
- More women better educated more peopel going to schools and colleges
- Traditional Views
- Women still expected to be homeworkers
- Still discrimination against women
- Working class - low skilled, low paid jobs
- More money to spend on leisure
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