Victorian living standards Flashcards
1
Q
working class improved living standard
A
- Money wages and consistency of payment for skilled workers
- Prices declined so real wages increased so living standards increased as they spend it on better food
- Introduction of bank holidays and more leisure times
- Development in railways means more trips to seasides
- Increase in GDP
- Life expectancy and infant immortality increased
2
Q
working class living standard did not improve
A
- Unskilled workers could experience unemployment at any point
- Unemployment undermined the benefits of real wage increases
- Rent took a large proportion of income and poor housing damaged health
- Many unskilled workers joined the submerged 10th
- GDP was a national average, did not help measure improved living standards
- ⅔ rejected by the army to join the boer war due to malnutrition and general unfitness
3
Q
upper and middle classes improved living standard
A
- Money wages, increased wages and improved living standards
- Development of middle class suburbs
4
Q
upper and middle classes not improved living standard
A
- Values of land decreased as value of agriculture decreased due to free trade and imports
5
Q
women improved living standard
A
- Textile workers were included in the industrial workforce and so reaped its benefits
- Prostitution provided an income
- Middle class women moved into profession like teaching
6
Q
women living standard did not improve
A
- Rest of the women excluded from the industrial workforce and lacked an independent income
- Depended on male income
- Had many children with Victorian risks involved
- Males would put their own spending before the families
- Prostitution was dangerous and frowned upon
- Domestic demands restricted the benefits of education for female children
- In 1871 ¼ of brides could not write their own names in the wedding register
- Middle class workers were subject to the marriage bar and could not work
- Aristocratic women were not raised for marriage, work or education
