Social change Flashcards
(23 cards)
What strike happened in 1888?
Bryant and May strike. Received public sympathy
What strike happened in 1889?
Dockers’ strike, lasted 5 weeks and they achieved their demands
What was passed in 1896?
Conciliation Act
What was the Conciliation act?
Method of settling disputes via mediation rather than strikes
When did MPs start getting paid?
1911
What strike took place in 1912?
Great Coal Strike. 1 million miners, lasted 37 days
What did the Great Coal Strike achieve?
Unskilled workers were given a minimum wage
What was set up in 1909 and what did they establish?
Trade Boards
Established a minimum wage
What did the LRC pressure the government into doing in 1906?
Provision for Free School Meals
Issues between 1908 and 1914
International tensions - war is brewing
1912 Home Rule crisi
1910-14 ‘Great Unrest’
1909 People’s Budget and Constitutional crisis
Female progress by 1900
1869 - women can vote in local town council elections
1870 - women can be elected to local school boards
1875 - women can be elected as Poor Law Guardians and run workhouses
1878 - can get a degree from London University
1889 - included in local government franchise but cannot stand
1894 - women have access to all local elections
What did Kier hardy attempt to pass in 1905?
A Private Members Bill that would enfranchise women but it failed.
What was passed in 1907 and what did it do?
Qualification of Women Act
Women can sit on local councils
What failed to pass in 1911, 1912 and 1913?
Conciliation acts that proposed giving 8% of women the vote
What happened in 1913?
Emily Davison died
Made political parties not want to work with the Suffragettes
What act was passed in 1913 and what did it do?
Cat and Mouse Act
Women on hunger strikes could be released and re-arrested
Made hunger strikes less effective
What did the Suffragettes do in 1913?
Bombed Lloyd George’s house
Politicians would no longer work with them as they can’t ‘give into violence’
The Government were to blame for the lack of progress by 1914
Asquith did not support female suffrage and refused to negotiate. Wanted to end violence
All potential bills were dropped
1911/12 male franchise bills were not allowed amendments that included women
1907 act did not go far enough §
What did the 1901 consensus confirm?
77% of population lived in urban cities - 25 out of 37 million
30 cities (e.g. Manchester) had populations of over 100,000
Women were to blame for the lack of progress by 1914
Violent and illegal tactics alienated them from the public and politicians
NUWSS (led by Millicent Fawcett) condemned the violence which divided the movement
What did the Booth and Rowntree reports find?
That 30% people living in urban cities lived in povertyE
Evidence that the retail sector expanded
First Selfridges opened in London in 1909
How many people were in non-manual labour jobs by 1914?
4 million
Doubled from 1899
