Leeds In The Twentieth Century
The family
So as well as imposing cuts the Conservative party is waging an ideological war against single mothers and in favour of the family. In this respect Capitalism has changed little since its birth. The industrial revolution saw the expounding of the nuclear family as the only acceptable model in society. Responsibilities for child care, housing, health and care of the elderly no longer lay with the community or with the lord of the manor. Instead it was expected that the smaller unit of the nuclear family would undertake all care for the workforce.
Economic circumstance forced women to act as nurses, childminders, cooks and cleaners. Similarly men were forced to sell their labour power to provide food and accommodation. The state …show more content…
These measures include guarding newly interred bodies for five weeks and burying corpses twelve feet down with iron staves set into the earth at fixed intervals immediately above the coffin.
Leeds in the Twentieth Century: Urban Renewal
The nineteenth century saw the establishment of Leeds primarily as a commercial city, built haphazardly and at a speed to keep pace with the ever expanding industries. Social and living conditions deteriorated rapidly, being sacrificed to promote the new industrial growth that brought great affluence to a few and indescribable poverty to many. For a long time the pleas
Until the Town Planning Act of 1909 there was no official control over the siting of new houses. The result was that Leeds was left a legacy of many squalid housing areas interwoven with factories and warehouses. The back-to-backs were crowded some 80-90 per acre. The worst of these consisted only to two rooms, a living-cum-kitchen room and one bedroom; later types often had two rooms on each floor. Through ventilation was impossible. Before 1844 some 30 000 back-to-backs were built, 28 000 between 1844 and 1874 and another 12 000 by 1909. Within a radius of 21/2 miles from the centre of the city, there still remains extensive housing areas more than 100 years …show more content…
Professional classes and others who could afford the fares of public transport and/or own cars moved progressively outwards towards the suburbs, particularly those on the northern perimeter. This resulted in the concentration of the working classes in the inner suburbs and inner city areas. The rapid expansion of local authority housing, particularly in the eastern districts of Leeds (Seacroft and Cross Gates), caused a further concentration of semi-skilled and manual workers in these areas. The net effect of these movements has been the emergence of city wards where the effects of social deprivation are clearly
So as well as imposing cuts the Conservative party is waging an ideological war against single mothers and in favour of the family. In this respect Capitalism has changed little since its birth. The industrial revolution saw the expounding of the nuclear family as the only acceptable model in society. Responsibilities for child care, housing, health and care of the elderly no longer lay with the community or with the lord of the manor. Instead it was expected that the smaller unit of the nuclear family would undertake all care for the workforce.
Economic circumstance forced women to act as nurses, childminders, cooks and cleaners. Similarly men were forced to sell their labour power to provide food and accommodation. The state …show more content…
These measures include guarding newly interred bodies for five weeks and burying corpses twelve feet down with iron staves set into the earth at fixed intervals immediately above the coffin.
Leeds in the Twentieth Century: Urban Renewal
The nineteenth century saw the establishment of Leeds primarily as a commercial city, built haphazardly and at a speed to keep pace with the ever expanding industries. Social and living conditions deteriorated rapidly, being sacrificed to promote the new industrial growth that brought great affluence to a few and indescribable poverty to many. For a long time the pleas
Until the Town Planning Act of 1909 there was no official control over the siting of new houses. The result was that Leeds was left a legacy of many squalid housing areas interwoven with factories and warehouses. The back-to-backs were crowded some 80-90 per acre. The worst of these consisted only to two rooms, a living-cum-kitchen room and one bedroom; later types often had two rooms on each floor. Through ventilation was impossible. Before 1844 some 30 000 back-to-backs were built, 28 000 between 1844 and 1874 and another 12 000 by 1909. Within a radius of 21/2 miles from the centre of the city, there still remains extensive housing areas more than 100 years …show more content…
Professional classes and others who could afford the fares of public transport and/or own cars moved progressively outwards towards the suburbs, particularly those on the northern perimeter. This resulted in the concentration of the working classes in the inner suburbs and inner city areas. The rapid expansion of local authority housing, particularly in the eastern districts of Leeds (Seacroft and Cross Gates), caused a further concentration of semi-skilled and manual workers in these areas. The net effect of these movements has been the emergence of city wards where the effects of social deprivation are clearly