municipal socialism - most important reason for the introduction of liberal social welfare reforms 1906-1914

Question 1

what does municipal socialism mean?

Answer 1

municipal socialism refers to welfare projects that were introduced at local level in towns and cities during the late 19th centuary

Question 2

KU - what happened in Birmingham between 1873-75?

Answer 2

reforms were introduced that were designed to better peoples lives including slum clearences and making gas and water supplies public services to be controlled by the government

Question 3

KU - by the 1860’s what had been established in glasgow?

Answer 3

the glasgow city council which introduced street lighting aswell as fresh water supply. many of these reforms had been set up by the new liberals

Question 4

A - therefor municipal socialism was an important reason as to why the liberal government introduced social welfare reforms 1906-1914 because…

Answer 4

because the new liberals had been so heabily involved in the introduction of reform at local level and they could see its public support. the work of the new liberals was rewarded in 1906 as they won the election of that year confirming public support for them

Question 5

A + - However municipal socialism was not the most important reason as to why the liberal government introduced social welfare reforms 1906-1914 because…

Answer 5

its influence can be very easily exagerated - many municipal schemes to lift people from poverty, for example, were centered around improving housing but liberal reforms did not actualy tackel housing issues betweel 1906-1914. It was not until after the first world war that atention was focused on poor quality housing

Question 6

E - upon evaluation, whilst municipal socialism did bring about changes that helped provent…

Answer 6

spread of disease by building underground sewers and public toilets, it did not actually improve the circumstances of people living in poverty as much as the investigations of booth and rowntree which both triggered action and raised awarness.Booth for example, introduced the idea of the poverty cycle which highlighted that people and families were vulnerable to poverty at particualr stages of life such as childhood and oldage.