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UNIT 5
WHAP 5.9
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tenement
and
urban
slums,
diseases
fires etc
wealth and opportunities of
middle
class -
rural
to
urban
,
better
life
working class,
bottom
class easily replaceable by
interchangeable parts
White collar:
middle
class ,
factory
and
office
managers, small
buiness
owners, and
professionals
Industry
captains overshadowed landed
aristocracy
Culture shock:
exhaustion
,
injury
, and
death
Low
wages → send
children
,
coal
mines worse than
mills
working class women -
coal mines
and
textiles
, pay
half
than men
Middle
class women - work at
office
,
housewife
became a
status
symbol
Cult of domesticity
: ads and consumer culture idelaized the female homemaker
Bad effects on
enviroment
Mass production
: made goods cheaper, more abundant, more easily acessible