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Work, Life And Leisure

Question
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How did women in London increase their income?

Solution
The women in London to increase their income:

(i)A large number of women used their homes to increase family income by taking in lodgers. 

(ii)Through such activities as tailoring, washing or matchbox making. 

(iii)As women got employment in wartime industries and offices, they withdrew from domestic service.

Some More Questions From Work, Life and Leisure Chapter

Give two reasons why the population of London expanded from the middle of the eighteenth century.

 

Explain any three reasons for which the population of London city expanded during the nineteenth century.

 

What were the changes in the kind of work available to women in London between the nineteenth and the twentieth century? Explain the factors which led to this change.

 

How did the condition of women workers change from 19th to 20th centuries in London?

How does the existence of a large urban population affect each of the following? Illustrate with historical examples.

(a) A private landlord.

(b) A Police Superintendent in charge of law and order.

(c) A leader of a political party.

Give explanations for the following:

Why well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century?



Give explanations for the following:

Why a number of Bombay films were about the lives of migrants?

Give explanations for the following:

What forms of entertainment came up in nineteenth century England to provide leisure activities for the people?

 

Explain the social changes in London which led to the need for the underground railway. Why was the development of the underground railway criticised?

 

 

Explain what is meant by the Haussmanisation of Paris. To what extent would you support or oppose this form of development? Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper, to either support or oppose this, giving reasons for your view.

To what extent does government regulation and new laws solve problem of pollution? Discuss one example each of the success and failure of legislation to change the quality of:

(a) Public Life

(b) Private Life