What percentage did Clapham (1926) say real wages increased by?
50%
30%
40%
Who said the industrial revolution was progress and a nation in which everyone shared the spoils?
Colquhoun
Ure
Toynbee
Ashton
Who coined the term 'the condition on England' in 1839?
Michael Sadler
Richard Oastler
Thomas Carlyle
Karl Marx
Which statement is true of Rule (1991) findings?
London wages fell, south wages dropped dramatically and wages in the north increased.
London wages rose, south wages dropped dramatically and wages in the north increased.
London wages rose, south wages rosedropped dramatically and wages in the north increased.
London wages fell, south wages dropped dramatically and wages in the north decreased slightly.
Komlos questioned which findings?
Horrell and Humphries household budgets
Nicholas and Steckle (1991) fall in heights to convicts sent to Australia
Floud, Watcher and Gregory (1990) rich were taller than the poor and all wages fell after 1830.
What do left wing pessimist historians during the cold war stress about the standard of living?
Increase in mortality in urban areas
More to standard of living than real wages
Real wages remained low
How many out of Horrell and Humphries' 1350 household budgets were from Lancashire?
867
856
786
567
Which two groups did the Hammonds and Webbs look at?
Coal miners
Women
Children
Handloomers
Who claimed the Industrial Revolution was 'disastrous and terrible'?
Hartwell
What do historians use to measure standard of living, tick all that apply.
Real wages
Consumption
Anthropometrics (Heights)
Weight
Working conditions
Life expectancy
Food intake
Army records
Richard Oastler compared the plight of factory children to west African slaves, True or False
Michael Sadler's report showed the mechanized horrors of the industrial revolution, true or false?