i.r. society : new social classes
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By Charlotte Bitschnau and Alexandra
Dossios
3 different classes…
Working/Lower Class:
• factories’ workers: men, women, and children
• no water supplies at home -> community pumps
• many diseases carried by dirty water
• underpaid
• worked in unsafe factories
• were worried about the new working machines coming up
• Working men set up illegal organisations to try and reform against the industrial improvements.
• many workers found comfort in a religious movement called Methodism, which was put up by John Wesley in the mid-1700’s
Middle Class
• Bourgeoisie
• merchants investing in factories
• inventors and skilled artisans who developed new
technologies
• women did not go to work but raised their children by
themselves at home
• spacious homes and ready supply of water
Upper Class
• factory owners
• large land owners
• capitalists
• financiers
• women did not go to work and had their children raised at
home by servants.
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