History A-Level
Urban poverty and class conflict
What Urban poverty and class conflict means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Unskilled urban workers endured low wages, long hours, casual employment and overcrowded slums, highlighting the conflict between labour and capital.
Topics that use Urban poverty and class conflict
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 5 Improving working and living conditions: trades union militancy in Ireland, 1907–14 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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