WWI+European+Social+Change

Hanna Lee Analyze and assess the extent to which World War I accelerated European social change in such areas as work, sex roles and everyday involvement in everyday life

Work
 * End of unemployment
 * Trade unions were able to make important desicions involving labor issues
 * Peasants came to urban areas
 * Unions participated in wage limits and production schedules

Women
 * Took over many jobs, even physical demanding ones
 * Faced male resistance due to lower wages the women recieved
 * Women demanded equal pay
 * Demanded and some countries gave women the right vote
 * Had own apartments
 * Smoked in public, wore shorter dresses etc.

Everyday Involvement []
 * Many aristocracy were killed in war
 * Unskilled workers and peasants were crushed by machine guns
 * Skilled laboroers did not have to go to war
 * Machine makers benefitted greatly
 * Prices of higly demanded products rised
 * Lower end people suffered economically
 * More democratic sociey emerged
 * Optimism was lost