https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2017-09-21 20:27:54 UTC 2025-10-24 21:13:43 UTC hello@padlet.com edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189936335 Men could earn pennies as porters, as long as they stayed clear of the associations which had a monopoly of porterage in London. Boys could hold horses’ heads while the driver took a break, or sell newspapers or fast food in the streets.]]> 2017-09-21 20:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189936335 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189937473 If a man had enough initiative and energy after a long working day, he could attend evening courses on scientific subjects or Latin or shorthand at a Mechanics’ Institution, or at one of the Working Men’s Colleges founded in 1854. ]]> 2017-09-21 20:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189937473 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189938160 The shipbuilding yards and the new docks in London and the north east required huge labour forces, but demand was unpredictable.

]]> 2017-09-21 20:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189938160 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189939065  Goods for sale: oysters, hot-eels, pea soup, fried fish, pies and puddings, sheep’s trotters, pickled whelks, gingerbread, baked potatoes, crumpets, cough-drops, street-ices, ginger beer, cocoa and peppermint water as well as clothes, second-hand musical instruments, books, live birds and even birds nests. ]]> 2017-09-21 20:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189939065 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189939489 For women, there were always places in the ‘slop trade’, producing cheap mass clothing and uniforms for the forces and for prisons. The pay was pitifully low. A woman might make one shirt in a long day, sewing by hand in poor light – she had to buy her own candles – and she would be lucky to earn six shillings for a dozen.]]> 2017-09-21 20:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189939489 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943722 The middle class criticized poor people for not working hard enough and were reluctant to help the poor on the grounds that it encouraged bad habits among the needy.]]> 2017-09-21 21:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943722 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943815 Many of the middle class were relatively well educated. Many people in the middle class paid considerable attention to religion, believing it to be a good way to instill morality. They generally considered hard work the key to a good life and to social success. ]]> 2017-09-21 21:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943815 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943843 The new industrialists developed not only a new style of business, but also a new lifestyle. Some of them imitated aristocracy by buying country estates and taking up such sports as hunting and horse racing. ]]> 2017-09-21 21:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943843 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943921 George Cruikshank's British Bee Hive, sketched in 1840, depicts a range of Britain's professions within a strictly divided pyramid-based social hierarchy. In the 19th century the bee was a popular symbol of industry and co-operation.]]> 2017-09-21 21:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943921 edik_zablotskiy https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943939 With the industrialization, the British middle class grew larger and more influential as the number of financiers, factory owners and capitalist farmers increased. The upper class still possessed the land and titles, but the industrial middle class had the money. ]]> 2017-09-21 21:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edik_zablotskiy/urqci6zug7qn/wish/189943939