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Political Economy, Ideology and the Persistence of Working-Class Housing Problems in Britain, 1850–1914*
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Nineteenth-century housing was not all gloom and doom. For significant elements of the nation the standard of comfort and material welfare improved substantially. Suburbanization of the middle classes in the second half of the century appreciably improved environmental conditions, the family in particular benefitting from a semi-rural existence with only the commuting breadwinner subject to the hostility of urban conditions. In the last third of the nineteenth century rising real incomes were especially beneficial to artisans and the more regularly employed labouring class. last third of the nineteenth century rising real incomes were especially beneficial to artisans and the more regularly employed labouring class. Linoleum, curtains, parlour furniture, even pianos transformed the immediate appearance of the home; shoes, a change of clothes and running water that of the people; and the kitchen range, water closets and gas mantles re-arranged the domestic patterns in other respects. The possibility of an outing to the seaside was for many a realistic one, while the growth of organized sport created leisure possibilities, as did the expansion of clubs and other social activities.
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Earlier versions of this paper were given as a public lecture at the University of Kansas, April 1983, and to a conference on housing history in Münster organized by the Historisches Seminar of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität. I am indebted to Prof. Dr. H. J. Teuteberg for permission to reproduce in translation sections of that paper, which appeared as “Die Krise des britischen Wohnungswesens 1830–1920” in H. J. Teuteberg [Ed.], Homo Habitans (Münster 1985). To the participants on those occasions I am grateful, as I am for the helpful observations of a referee for this paper.
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