HIS241H1 Lecture : Age of Masses
Document Summary
able to break through the classes proletariat into the lower, middle-class (moyen-bourgeoisie. bad breakdown of the family, immediate family in the late 19th century different factories: 11 and under prohibited to working, but some still worked. changed society quickly (in 20 years: crime sky rocketed, hard time adapting to the changes, turn of the 19th cent. 5 000 reported crime, 1840 20 000, 1890s 100 000. coincides with the first and second industrial revolution. mental pandemic brought out by the revolution unable to adapt. Saw it as a problem of women, not of society: tried to blame the females (the disease law, bourg. cliental not jailed, catholic states turned blind eye to pros. Saw it as the lesser of all evils (sodomy, masturbation: had to get permit - british army made up of single men seek pleasure (instead of turning to each other)
