how did the rich treat the poor during the victorian era?
help asked:
how were the lifestyles of the poor and rich? how did the rich treat the poor? and why?
JONI
how were the lifestyles of the poor and rich? how did the rich treat the poor? and why?
JONI
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Tags: Lifestyles, Victorian Era
March 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
VICENTE
The rich treat the poor the same no matter what country or what age.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:10 am
RAUL
Just like they do now-With contempt
March 20th, 2009 at 5:32 am
BETHANY
The rich treated the poor just as they do now.
If the poor remain in their place, under the thumb of the rich, then they get along fine, just as long as the poor give up their children to fight in rich people’s wars.
March 21st, 2009 at 8:15 am
AMADO
Contrary to most things you hear they mainly got along well enough. In the Victorian age most people still lived on the land, even in Great Britain, the most industrialized country in the world. Most wealthy people were wealthy because of the production of the land and they knew they depended on the tenants for it. The tenants also knew this. There were strict rules and customs regulating how the land owners dealt with the land producers and vice versa. Few owners abused the rules and customs and few workers challenged the owners. Usually there was not much reason to, the rural poor lived well enough, the rural wealthy were allowed and expected to show and use their wealth. Individuals that went too far in their stinginess were bought into line more by their fellow owners than by protests or law suits.
In the cities it was something else again. A lot of the wealthy were newly wealthy and did abuse the newly displaced workers. SInce neither side had a history of relationships both sides did not know how to deal with one other. THe Factory owners tried to apply the rural rules in a situation they would not fit and the working class was abused in ways beyond deesciption. But by the VIctorian age many new rules and customs were being worked out by law, not tradition. THe concentration of workers in small areas, relatively easy to organize, forced improvements in pay and conditions. But even so most strikes did not lead to violent confrontations. THat did not become common until the working class started aiming for political reform and not just better pay, better wages.
It is important to remember that through out the Victorian age and despite the huge new wealth o industrialization the majority of peole were still tied to the land in rural areas. This lent strong stabilzing effect to society.