Society 1951-64
- Created by: Jake 101
- Created on: 22-04-17 15:31
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- 1950s Social Developments
- Living Standards
- Pre-war slums cleared and new towns grew rapidly, Kirkby, Crawley
- Weekly wage almost doubled to £15
- Home-ownership increased but council houses still favoured
- Farmers did well economically
- Affluence
- Consumer goods increased, hire purchase
- Advertising
- 1960, 10 million TVs
- DIY/gardening
- 25% rise car ownership, 1200 miles of main road
- Paid holidays, butlins
- Establishment
- Late 1950s class loyalties and attitudes changed
- CND challenged 1958
- Dominant elite, Nepotism, 1958 Macmillan related to 7/9 ministers
- Government no longer prevented publications
- 1960 'Satire Boom', Private Eye, Angry young men
- Profumo Affair
- Profumo Tory MP
- Christine Keeler, Ivanov lover
- Security risk
- Exposed 1963, end of Macmillan
- Women
- Family allowance
- 1964 more women working
- Equal pay teachers 1952, Civil servants 1954
- Labour saving devices
- Feminism spread to the UK
- Immigration
- 1958, 210,000 immigrants
- Mixed attitudes
- 1948 Windrush
- Better way of life
- Nottingham '****** Hunts'
- Notting Hill riots
- Mosely 'repatriation'
- 1962 Immigration act, tightened regulations
- Outward migration higher then inward
- Youth culture
- Labour saving devices
- No national service after 1960
- Post-war baby boom brought more teenagers, 10% of population
- Teddy Boys, Mods, Rockers
- Violence between Mods and Rockers
- Disposable income, products aimed at them
- Changing attitudes
- More freedom in film, TV and literature
- Racial tensions and police series' more realistic
- 'Lady Chatterley's lover' sold 2 million after court case
- Mary Whitehouse led criticism, undermined decency in society
- Living Standards
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