Overall Society:
*All information is taken from AP European History Curriculum Framework
Working-Class Marriages:
Law and Crimes:
- The experiences of everyday life were shaped by industrialization, depending on the level of industrial development in a particular location.
- In industrialized areas of Europe (i.e. Western and northern Europe) socioeconomic changes create division of labor that led to the development of self-conscious classes, such as the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
- In some of the less industrialized areas of Europe, the dominance of agricultural elites persisted into the 20th century.
- Class identity developed and was reinforced through participation in philanthropic, politic, and social associations among the middle classes, and in mutual aid societies and trade unions among the working classes.
- Along with better harvests caused in part by the commercialization of agriculture, industrialization promoted population growth, longer life expectancy, and lowered infant mortality.
- With migration from rural to urban areas in industrialized regions, cities experienced overcrowding, while affected rural areas suffered declines in available labor as well as weakened communities.
- Bourgeois families became focused on the nuclear family and the “cult of domesticity,” with distinct gender roles for men and women.
- By the end of the century, wages and the quality of life for the working class improved because of laws restricting the labor of children and women, social welfare programs, improved diet, and the use of birth control.
- Economic motivations for marriage, while still important for all classes diminished as the middle –class notion of companionate marriage began to be adopted by the working classes.
- Leisure time centered increasingly on the family or small groups.
- New efficient methods of transportation and other innovations enhanced the quality of life.
- Because of the persistence of primitive agricultural practices and land-owning patterns, some areas of Europe lagged in industrialization, while facing famine, depth, and land shortages.
*All information is taken from AP European History Curriculum Framework
Working-Class Marriages:
- marriages were almost no longer arranged due to new wage economy which enabled women to have a larger opportunity for marriage.
- Having a dowry was still a term that was used and considered for every marriage.
- Children could also now help families more financially which enabled families to be bigger
- A women's life was still to cook and take care of the family but also working in factories.
Law and Crimes:
- Better police systems were enforced for those who committed crimes.
- Prison systems changed slightly to fit the number of criminals.
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