SOCIAL

• New liberalism involved a degree of state intervention
• Booth and Rowntree were social investigators who studied the social conditions of the poor in the 1800s.
• Booth came up with the idea of the 'social gospel' which was a way of helping the poor and the sick
• Rowntree came up with the cycle of poverty
• Tariff reform league 1903 wanted protectionism
• Triple alliance- coal miners, railway workers and engineers
• Amalgamated society of engineers advoated for rights in their workplace
• NUWSS- 1897 led by millicent fawcett and campaigned peacefully for womens emancipation
• WSPU- 1903 led by emmeline pankhurst and was more militant
• Emily Davison was a WSPU suffragette who became a martyr after throwing herself under the kings horses in 1913
• Kier hardy supported womens suffrage
• 1913 Cat and mouse act meant that suffragettes on hunger strike would be released until well again and then re-arrested. This was passed after reports of horrific force feedings and instances of sexual assault against suffragettes whod been arrested
• Syndicalism- offshoot off socialism with a focus on class warfare. Includes collective bargaining
• Married womens act let women keep Some finance
• Women did piece work- paid per product
• The Mental Deficiency Act of 1913 established institutions for mentally disabled individuals.
• The Peoples budget proposed raising passive taxes to pay for welfare support
• Provincial press expanded as literacy rates did
• Services like building societies began to appear and opened up opportunities
• Increased access to education meant that more people could read newspapers, which were cheaper than ever before
• QOL went up for many but at the same time the gap between the rich and poor widened