Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Need
for Reform
- Hardship in the 1920s
- Only help for poor: workhouses
- Provided food and lodging in exchange
for long hours in brutal conditions
- Serious unemployment
- No unemployment benefit
- Old people with no savings suffered badly
- No government pensions
- Only option: workhouses
- Poor housing: cold, cramped,
no sewage system
- Easy to get ill, meaning missing work and
therefore losing your job
- People couldn't afford doctors or medicine
- Children had to work at an early
age and miss out on education