1. Higher professional and managerial occupations
2. Lower professional and managerial occupations
3. Intermediate occupations (4. Small employers and non-professional self-employed workers)
- Establishment of the Poor Law during the reign of Elizabeth 1st (1558-1603).
- The new Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, replaced the original Poor Law that was established in 1601.
- Public healthsystem (1875)
- 1905-1922 reform programmes on old age pensions, national insurance, health, employment and trade unionism.
- The reform programmes resulted in what we know today as a welfare system or welfare state.
- 1.WW (1914-1918) and the following economic crises halted social services expansion.
- 1942 a model for a "new" welfare state appeared in the Beveridge Report.
- In 1945-1951 the Labour government implemented social and health system and created the present welfare state.
The Great British Class Survey (Teaching Material - Video):
The BBC's "The Great British Class Survey" was launched on 26 january 2011. Being the largest survey ever made on british social classes, it has a differentiated view and perspective, as it shows its results through a TV-show. "The Great British Class Survey" asks about people’s wealth, income and work situation but also about their friendships and social networks and about their cultural tastes and leisure-time activities. By providing a richer, more nuanced picture of people’s resources and practices than traditional, occupational models of class allow, the survey promises to produce the most comprehensive map of the class structure of the UK to date. The Great British Class Survey
Social class and inequality
Middle and working class in Britain:
Middle class: 60% of the population
1. Higher professional and managerial occupations
2. Lower professional and managerial occupations
3. Intermediate occupations
(4. Small employers and non-professional self-employed workers)
Working class: 40% of the population
5. Lower supervisory and technical occupations
6. Semi-routine occupations
7. Routine occupations
Underclass:
8. Never worked and long-term unemployed
The pursuit of bringing inequality to extinction:
- Establishment of the Poor Law during the reign of Elizabeth 1st (1558-1603).
- The new Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, replaced the original Poor Law that was established in 1601.
- The Poor Laws:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Poor_Laws
- Public healthsystem (1875)
- 1905-1922 reform programmes on old age pensions, national insurance, health, employment and trade unionism.
- The reform programmes resulted in what we know today as a welfare system or welfare state.
- 1.WW (1914-1918) and the following economic crises halted social services expansion.
- 1942 a model for a "new" welfare state appeared in the Beveridge Report.
- The Beveridge Report of 1942:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge_Report
- In 1945-1951 the Labour government implemented social and health system and created the present welfare state.
The Great British Class Survey (Teaching Material - Video):
The BBC's "The Great British Class Survey" was launched on 26 january 2011. Being the largest survey ever made on british social classes, it has a differentiated view and perspective, as it shows its results through a TV-show.
"The Great British Class Survey" asks about people’s wealth, income and work situation but also about their friendships and social networks and about their cultural tastes and leisure-time activities. By providing a richer, more nuanced picture of people’s resources and practices than traditional, occupational models of class allow, the survey promises to produce the most comprehensive map of the class structure of the UK to date.
The Great British Class Survey