1870+Mass+Society

Riley Shamloufard

1870 Mass society

Paragraph 1 Intro Paragraph 2 Population Growth Paragraph 3 Urban enviroment/living conditions
 * A second Industrial revolution
 * Mass consumption
 * Working class organization
 * Gender issues
 * Rising birthrate
 * Medical discoveries(medicine vaccines)
 * Improvenment in urban enviroment
 * Increase in agriculture (more food supply)
 * Pasteurization of milk (reduced inftant deaths)
 * However many start to emigrate to North America
 * increase urbanization throughout europe
 * People driven to the cities for work in industries
 * Boards of health created to make government take action on public health hazards
 * Ability to pump in clean water and to pump out dirty water with dams and reservoirs
 * British housing act allowed for cheap houses and and new taxes
 * Later invention of streetcars and commuter trains

Paragraph 4 Social structure Paragraph 5 conclusion
 * Elite class had gained great wealth from industry
 * Plutocrats a group of people in big business lots of wealth
 * Elite enjoyed life in country and often had a second house in urban areas
 * Middle class included professional in law and medicine and civil service.
 * White collar workers for example were bank tellers secretaries (indoor jobs)
 * Lower class 80% of population
 * Lower class mostly agricultural laborers and sharecroppers
 * lower class also included artisans
 * Impacts of mass society
 * Basic reasons for population growth and urbanization
 * A knew form of social structure