HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Skilled Worker, Print Culture, Upper Class
Document Summary
Sense of middle class (shared interest & values) Diversity; wide range of experiences, levels of wealth, professions, social influences. Not traditional upper class (nobility, independent, non-workers, usually landowners) Middle class had enough money to leave a will. 25% brits understood they were middle class. Hard work was way to get ahead. One day i walked with one of these mid class gentlemen in manchester, i spoke to him about disgraceful unhealthy slums, never seen so badly built a town in my life. And yet there is a good deal of money to be made here, good morning sir" brophy text. Make working class at point of collapse so they work so hard that they make something of themselves. Everyone"s where they are in class for a reason. Upper class is useless/unproductive, they do nothing" middle class. Working class is drunk and lazy" middle class. Invested lots of money and time to help working class.
