Urbanisation and living conditions
What Urbanisation and living conditions means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The unskilled working classes endured slum housing and casual labour, while the expanding middle classes illustrated class division through suburban housing and the employment of domestic servants.
Rapid urbanisation and industrialisation altered living conditions, affecting both Tsarist workers and Soviet citizens and the enduring hardships faced by the Russian peasantry.
Topics that use Urbanisation and living conditions
- 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 – Reform and challenge, c1851–c1886 (AQA A-Level)
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – consequence in this period through the following key questions: (AQA A-Level)
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