STANDARDS OF LIVING
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Positives.
Low prices + general wage increase.
Technological improvements.
Understanding of health. Life expectancy up.
More available goods and healthy foods.
Technological improvements.
Understanding of health. Life expectancy up.
More available goods and healthy foods.
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Who does not miss out on this?
Working class!
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After ^^1900.^^
High prices, high wages, low unemployment.
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What were the problems in sweated industries?
Long hours, no unions, not covered by factory acts!
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What were the problems in general?
Lack of regular work, large families to support, old age and ill health.
CANNOT ESCAPE THE CYCLE.
CANNOT ESCAPE THE CYCLE.
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Who was willing to change this?
New Liberals, younger generation.
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What did they think?
Poverty was due to circumstance, not laziness.
More collectivist approach.
More collectivist approach.
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Why did they think this?
Read the reports of Booth and Rowntree.
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Chapter 18: America Transformed into the Industrial Giant of the World (1870– 1910)
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Chapter 18: America Transformed into the Industrial Giant of the World (1870– 1910)
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