WHAP 5.9

Cards (12)

  • 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