Living and working conditions
What Living and working conditions means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Living and working conditions
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Reference: OCR
The upper class enjoyed lives of luxury, the middle class lived in comfortable suburban villas, and the working class faced long hours for low wages and overcrowded, unsanitary urban housing.
Long hours in poor conditions in the sweated trades, alongside strong community networks and religious institutions built to support new arrivals.
Concentration in overcrowded, impoverished areas known as rookeries, with employment as navvies building canals and railways or in factories.
Topics that use Living and working conditions
- British Depth Study: Britain in Peace and War, 1900–1918 (OCR GCSE)
- Thematic Study: Migrants to Britain, c.1250 to present (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Anti-imperialism
- Asylum-seekers
- Causes of migration and expulsion
- Changing attitudes to poverty
- Community activism and resistance
- Community and settlement
- Conscientious objection
- Conscription
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