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Classes Lower Working Social Mobility Non Existent Couldn’t Jobs

Question Social mobility in 1912
Answer nearly non-existent
The lower classes couldn’t get jobs that paid well because they weren’t educated or ‘skilled’ enough. Furthermore, many employers wouldn’t hire working class people for the ‘grander’ or better jobs. Working in industry was thought by the upper classes to be suited to the lower classes because it matched their ‘dirtiness’, and was a good way to keep them out of view.

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