Changed in Living

• What can a persons standard of living depend on ?


  Age gender, race etc

  Having a job

  Life may not be enjoyable for everybody
• How did standard of living improve with employment?


  More families had a wage, but not everybody was equal, and not all jobs were fun
• Wages improved under Nazi Germany but all jobs paid differently, Price inflation, Low wage erners
• What happened to working hours?

  They got longer from 43 to 49 a week. Ebert promised 8 hr a day.
• What were the 3 work organisations ?

  German labour front

  Strength through Joy Kdf

  Beauty of Labour
• What was the German labour front?


  Trade unions banned so this was its replacement

  Set minimum pay levels and maximum work time

  Workers lost right to negotiate wage, and punished if disruptive.
• What was the Strength Through joy?


  Set up to improve working conditions of workers

  Leisure activities and the Volkswagen, but nobody actually got one.
• What was the Beauty of Labour?


  Provide better facilities, like toilets shower canteens rooms etc. Made the workers do the renovating, Threatened with sack if they didn't