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The Class-Based Society (peoples status derives from job/wealth)…
The Class-Based Society (peoples status derives from job/wealth)
Origins
Political and economic changes that occurred in the late 18th century
French Revolution
Abolition of estates system
Industrial Revolution
Increased importance and power of the wealthy burgeoisie
Factory and business owners
Working class emerged
Industrial workers
Characteristics
Class determined by wealth
More social mobility, although still limited
Lots of inequality
Upper Class
Wealthy burgeoisie
Bankers, factory and business owners
Nobility
Received large incomes from agricultural holdings
Middle Class
Civil servants, lawyers, doctors
Small-scale merchants and craftsmen
Farmers who owned small agricultural holdings
Working class
Lived in extreme poverty
Industrial workers (proletariat)
Worked in factories
Didn't own property
Bad working conditions
Low wages
Tenant farmers
Agricultural labourers
Life in the industrial city
Rapid urbanization
New buildings, improved infrastructure
Factories
Railway stations
Cities grew beyond their historical city centres
New neighbourhoods for the middle and lower classes
Differences in neighbourhoods highlighted social inequality