Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What lead to liberal reforms
- Boer War
- 1899-1902
- Defending southern Africain teritory
- some areas of Britain 69%
of men where to unfit to fight
- Due to starvation
- Industrial Decline
- Britains Leading
Industrial power was
being challenged by
Germany and America
- Germany's success
linked to their welfare
- Healthier,
better
educated
- Made their
workers
better
- Political Threat
- If people where
happier they would
be less likely to vote
labour or to revolt
- worried about socialist
threat that troubled other
countries
- Seebohm Rowntree
- Researched poverty in York
- Saw that Britain
had major
poverty problems
- Wrote a book with everything in it
- Showed that it was not
their poor peoples fault as
many rich people believed
- Showed old,
young and sick
very valuable