Social Impacts of WW1
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- Social Impact of WW1
- Social Classes
- working class
- brought full employment
- created jobs for wives, daughters and old children
- good money could be made
- created jobs for wives, daughters and old children
- poverty was reduced
- rations
- some people ate more than normal
- rations
- brought full employment
- middle & upper classes
- reduction in living standards
- income tax rose & profits were limited
- landed classes
- hit by high death rates
- reduction in living standards
- not broken down - still a big gap
- working class girls went into munition work where as middle class girls became nurses.
- Big gap between officers and men in the army
- all classes sympathised over the loss of men
- bonding?
- working class
- Belief's & attitudes
- Challenged some beliefs within society
- education was disrupted
- Prevented working class from getting a good job
- 300,00 boys lost their farthers
- many single parent families
- churches had a greater public role
- burials and memorials, services ect
- some people refused to fight on religious grounds
- promoted anti-colonial and anti-imperialism
- exactly what Britain was pre-war
- Adult Men
- below 40
- joined the army
- physical and emotional trauma
- joined the army
- had to get used to the up and coming role of women in the workforce.
- over 21 given the right to vote after the war
- below 40
- Women in Society
- Some women were in work before the war
- secretaries
- new working conditions for women
- hands on, dirty and dangerous
- over 100 women died from disease due to handling weapons
- hands on, dirty and dangerous
- increased teh amount of women in work
- 'New freedom' symbolised by new fashions
- short skirts and fancy ahir styles
- Some women were in work before the war
- Women & the vote
- Given the vote in the representation of the peoples act.
- Not all women were given the vote
- Given the vote in the representation of the peoples act.
- Social Classes
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