Tensions in Whitechapel
- Created by: reneesimba
- Created on: 03-06-18 00:01
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- Tensions of Whitechapel
- Irish Immigrants
- Left Ireland for the USA but ended up in London. Poverty meant they could only afford to live in the cheapest parts of London
- Most worked as navvies or dockers
- Had a reputation for drinking/smoking and being drunk and violent and were also associated with terrorism, Fenian fanatics fighting for independence
- Anarchists and Socialists
- From 1848 there was a wave of attempted revolutions across europe. Many of the revolutions ended up in London's east end.
- Both movements feared by authorities and middle and upper classes, but attracted some support from residents of Whitechapel
- Fluctuating population: most accommodation in whitechapel was temporary meaning there were some people with no intentions of forming a close knit community
- Untitled
- Eastern European immigrants
- Huge influx of European immigrants, mostly Russian and Polish Jews who had faced persecution in Russia after Tsar's assassination
- Poverty meant they could only settle in certain parts (cheaper) and tended to stick together, causing segregation. Some parts had 95% Jewish population
- Resulting tensions
- Tensions between whites and immigrants over access to housing and jobs. Recently arrived Jews were prepared to have lower pay in worser conditions- leading to increase in Sweatshop conditions- annoyed other employers
- Anti-semitism and violence against jews grey rapidly. Anyone with foreign accent was suspected to be a violent revolutionary. Foreigners even blamed for Ripper crimes- increasing racial hatred and violence
- Irish Immigrants
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