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Society 1951-64 x (Rise in Living Standards (1951 british infrastructure…
Society 1951-64 x
Rise in Living Standards
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Home ownership increased with easy access to cheap morgages however the majority still lived in council houses
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Class and 'Establishment
class loyalties were still very strong in 1951 election 65% of working class voted Labour and 80% middle class oted conservative
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Public were looking for leaders who earned their position through merit and understood the modern technological age they were living in
late 1950's writers called 'the angry young men' attacked behaiour and attitudes of establishment ie 'Look Back in Anger' staged in 1956
Position of Women
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Welfare State was based on the nuclear family ie morgages and bank accounts in men's names so women were faniancially dependant
Trade unions did not support women and they thought it would lower their wages and damage children if women went to work
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Labour saving devises between 57-59 the number of houses with a washing machien rose by 54% and a fridge by 58%
At the end of this period second wave feminism was beginning in the US and would spread to britain by the late 1960's
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