SOCIALISM AFTER REVOLUTION

SOCIAL CLASSES

• Wealthy elite were at the top 5% of the population
• and contrilled 30- 40% of wealth.
• Middle class were lawyers, doctors, business managers, engineers, accountants.
• Lower middle class, small shop keepers, traders, and prosperous peasants.
• Lower middle class helped the classes above them.

WORKING CLASS

• Working classes made up 80% of the population
• Pesants, farm laborers, and share cropers.

URBAN WORKING CLASSES

• Included artisans and semi skilled laborers
• Experience improvement after 1870's
• More money for clothes and leisure activities.
• At the bottom was unskilled laborers.

TREATMENT OF WOMEN

• 19th century people thought women should just stay home
• Later in 19th century, birth rate decreased
• Middle class women had to start to earn money
• High demand for low paid workers led to women being hired