Life In The Upper Class

The slums were packed with the urban poor. These people would be crammed into awfully built apartment buildings. There were roughly four families that would live on each floor. These building were called slum tenements. These buildings were placed side by side, therefore making them appear and feel even more crowded. Since these tenements were so incredibly crowded, fire and illness were a big hazard. Many city roads and sidewalks were made of wood which made them very flammable. If a fire was lit, it could spread to the crowded building forcing many people to attempt to evacuate, which was very difficult because of the tiny space and the surplus of people. Illness was another big issue. Illness would spread incredibly fast because of the horrid conditions of the tenements and again, the amount of people crammed in these spaces. Therefore, the slums are not suitable for any person, especially not one who needs an adequate amount of rest after an incredibly exhausting day at the factory.

As a consequence of the industrialisation in Britain, the mobilisation of masses started. Working class families migrated from other cities seeking for better job opportunities and life. However, industrialised cities became affected by this phenomenon and soon became overcrowded. These families used to dwell in tenements, in rather poor sanitary conditions due to the lack of hygiene and artificial feeding in children. Children and their parents struggled to cope with freezing temperatures during the winter since they could not afford to pay for heating. However, summer did not mean that poor conditions improved, on the

As a consequence of the industrialisation in Britain, the mobilisation of masses started. Working class families migrated from other cities seeking for job opportunities and a better life. However, industrialised cities became affected by this and soon became overcrowded. Working class families used to dwell in tenements in rather poor sanitary conditions due to the lack of hygiene and artificial feeding in children. Children and their parents struggled to cope with freezing temperatures during the winter since they could not afford to pay

Life in Victorian London was hard. The middle class could easily go into debt and fall into poverty. The workhouses were absolutely awful they were designed to punish the poor. Therefore some people chose other options for living. “Life in the workhouse was so hard some took their chances on the street,” (Warren 17). Schools were very terrible. The food was often terrible with little to no health concerns, but the kids who went to school should be considered lucky. The jobs given to kids were much worse than bad food. Girls as young as 12 were forced into prostitution and boys chimney sweeps and often got lung cancer. In the end, Victorian London was a terrible place to live especially for the poor.

Social classes are what makes a society. Everyone in a society has their own social class that they are a part of. Social classes are a large group of people who rank closely to one another in wealth, power, and prestige. Wealth, power, and prestige are the components that determine your social class. Wealth is determined by taking the total market value of all physical and intangible assets owned, then subtracting all debts (Henslin 2017:227). Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events (Henslin 2017:230). Prestige is the level of respect at which a person or thing is regarded by others (Henslin 2017:233). Tie in sentence. As children, we inherit our social class from our parents.

It was made up of people who did not make enough farming so they had to work in dangerous factories. The people of the lower class also had unsanitary living conditions because there jobs at the factories had little pay. Document 8 is an article about the conditions of the housing in the lower class. It states “..one penetrates into this chaos of small one-storied, one-roomed hits, in the most with no artificial floor, kitchen, living and sleeping-room all in one”. This house that was described is called tenets. The tenets were cramped and unsanitary for people of the lower class to live in. It caused a lot of diseases because of poor sanitary and tight living areas. Document 7 shows a dirty bar in a lower class neighborhood. The bar looks run down and the people look dirty and ragged. On the far right side a little girl is in the bar which shows that the family cannot afford a nanny to look after the kids while the they go out. Documents 5 and 9 show the working conditions of the lower class. The article on Document 5 says “..or from painful repetition of efforts which distorts or wear out his frame”. When the writer says “painful repetition” he refers to the painful work that occurs everyday long and hard hours, that the members of the lower class experienced. Document 9 depicts kids dirty and unhappy at work in the factories. The lower class kids had it worse because they worked 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. They got

The social conditions in the years before were intolerable. oneof the issus in these times was living conditions. people lived in overcrowedd, porrly built rooms called tenements. these tenements were often build in large clumps, so that you would have hundreds of the time houses built directly next to each other and on top of each other.

In 1789, the French experienced a revolution by the peasants due to unfair tax practices. The wealthiest 2% of the country was not getting taxed whatsoever and the other 98% of the country, which was poor, had to support the great tax burden that had arisen due to immense spending by the government, which was for the most part controlled completely by the top 2%.

As rent prices were not cheap, some families offered to have other extended family to stay with them. Also is was very common for families to have strangers stay with them in order to compensate for the high rent. More and more people flocked to the cities, and the need for affordable housing was out of control. The main concern for families was finding a place to live, even if it meant living in a tenement faced with overcrowding and safety issues. Most tenements had few if any windows, poor ventilation systems which led to bad air quality, which in turn led to the development of sickness and diseases. The tenements also were extreme fire hazards with no viable escape routes, and most had no indoor running water or plumbing

Our society is divided into many different classes in order to distinguish people by their classes. However, we also divided each level inside each classes, such as the middle class has three different classes, lower-middle class, middle-middle class, and upper-middle class. Those classes inside a class also represent some kind of social problems as a whole. Recently there has been a hot topic whether the upper middle class has great impact on the whole society. The gap between the upper middle class and the rest of the middleman has become wider and wider because of incomes, education, families, and marriages. Since the gap is widening, it creates an unbalanced social class system and brings up some side-effects which ultimately may ruin the whole country.

Tenants in the worse sides of the city lived in crowded homes and was polluted with dust (Riis 1890). Crowded areas and a polluted area meant that it was easy to catch a cold quickly. At work, people would work 60-80 hours a week for around 22 cents an hour (Hakim 94). If workers protested their wages and had strikes, they would be shut down quickly. Workers were also at risk of losing a limb by mishandling the machinery. Child workers had to work barefoot and had the same risks of losing a limb or catching diseases in the contaminated factories (Hakim 114). People worked in conditions like this because that was the only way to maintain some sort of steady income (Sinclair 31-33). Improvements like new machines or new homes didn’t help during the time either. They still were similar to the old homes/machines. Capitalism didn’t improve much of a worker’s life at all, and it's mainly aimed to help the big

Due to lacks of sewers or plumbing, discarded rubbish and human waste would collect in the streets and be left there for days at end. To add to this, families would commonly have to share living facilities with one another. Single rooms would often house multiple families, due to housing costs and wages making it an unviable to own to themselves. In later years however, after sufficient plumbing was introduced and masses of people moved out of the cities, conditions wide spread were improved. This, when compared to today, could be considered as small steps to what we have

Living conditions decreased drastically for most workers, this more than halved the average lifespan of a person, “ a British government study showed an average life span to be 17 years for working-class people in one large city, compared with 38 years in a nearby rural area.” (Beck). Diseases were widespread throughout cities, unsanitary

The Allure and Problems of the Cities: Rural youth were attracted by wonder of city life. Thousands left for city during rural depressions. Exodus from countryside was especially evident in the East Those who moved to the city often traded one set of problems for another. No choice but to live in crowded apartments. Designers forced to build upward due to cramping o In New York City, result was dumbbell tenement houses Tightly packed, dumbbell appearance from overhead, tiny air shafts, poor heating and ventilation, fire hazard Early tenements were poorly heated, communal toilets outside, no privacy, no free space, infectious diseases, odor o Mortality rate among urban poor was higher than general population.

With a booming population that only continued to grow, as more and more people flocked to the city for jobs, housing was cramped. With more people than the area could support, combined with the inadequate sanitary conditions of the slums, where they had “neither gutters no drains” and “refuse [accumulated] in stagnant, stinking puddles.”(5) people would be forced to live surrounded by disease. Diseases that would spread fast, and killed many. These people had no choice but to live surrounded by shit, and were given no choices about their future along with no chance at progressing away from poverty. Their lives went down hill and not only did progress but