The Middle Classes

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  • Опубліковано 5 жов 2024

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  • @nogadev
    @nogadev 3 роки тому +37

    00:10 - The middle classes
    01:45 - Categorizing people
    03:15 - Rising up the social ladder
    04:15 - The deserving and undeserving poor
    05:20 - Depictions of class in Great Expectations
    06:25 - Competition and morality

  • @Ailorn
    @Ailorn 4 роки тому +14

    This still seems very relevant in today's American society. There still seems to be competing perspectives on poverty; who is deserving vs not and compassionate brotherhood towards our fellow man.

  • @MissSladousek
    @MissSladousek 7 років тому +23

    I love listening to Kathryn Hughes. Her voice is so calm and her English is clear. Great video!

  • @0shuas
    @0shuas 3 роки тому +15

    ap world history fun

  • @erykfreethinker7147
    @erykfreethinker7147 8 років тому +9

    What would the Victorians have thought about our venerations of 'celebrities', especially those who are celebrities because they well known, without talent or character?
    We have every bit as much of a class system in Britain today as there ever has been, the levels have changed and multiplied as has the focus but there is as much hypocrisy as ever and as much social climbing as ever.
    The Bee-hive would need more cartouches for characterising our differing society positions. I notice the shape of the cartouches matches the shape of the later shape for the studio photograph when that arrived.

  • @timward3116
    @timward3116 Рік тому +1

    Nothing seems to have changed very much regarding social mobility - or rather, it changed somewhat after the Depression and WWII, but then reversed again as the ruling class consolidated its power and jammed the middle-class down to poverty, the problem of downward social mobility only being mitigated by the extension of enormous credit and indentured servitude.

  • @Angellady11
    @Angellady11 2 роки тому +2

    And these days no one in England cares because it’s considered negative to focus on class

  • @AnjaliDandriyal
    @AnjaliDandriyal 3 роки тому +10

    You neglected to mention that the wealth also came from looting colonized countries.
    Ps: interesting to see the Indian nanny (?) holding the baby while the other women just lay about lmao... so hardworking 😂

    • @L_Martin
      @L_Martin 3 роки тому +1

      The colonialism, ransacking and hoarding of resources and obscene concentration of wealth among a minority should be taken as read when dealing with capitalism.

    • @mohamedahmedyassinhussein6856
      @mohamedahmedyassinhussein6856 5 днів тому

      Did you watch the video the “men” were not the ladies

  • @saidnait-kaci1529
    @saidnait-kaci1529 2 роки тому

    hi how was the concept of divorce for middle class during the vectorian era ? someone to answer !! ( sources please )

  • @coreywhite1111
    @coreywhite1111 4 роки тому +4

    Great you have just ruined time travel for me

  • @alexiznaga743
    @alexiznaga743 2 роки тому

    Yo hire me for y’all’s new editor…

  • @beyourself2444
    @beyourself2444 2 роки тому +2

    Strange, slaves are nowhere to be found, ahh Britain who got rich off the backs of certain people but never talk about it.

    • @PhilippaBeale
      @PhilippaBeale 2 роки тому +8

      Slavery was stopped in Britain in 1813 and this talk is based around the industrial revolution so 50 years later.

    • @mushy111
      @mushy111 2 роки тому +3

      @@PhilippaBeale Shh! don't let logic and historical accuracy get in the way of sensationalism.

  • @alphabet_soup123
    @alphabet_soup123 6 років тому +8

    Yeah thanks for the spoiler. You've ruined Great Expectations for me now.

    • @bloopdeboop1707
      @bloopdeboop1707 2 роки тому +1

      It said Great Expectations on it. You could've skipped it. I did?

    • @insuranceagenthours4559
      @insuranceagenthours4559 2 роки тому +2

      The book came out in 1860 old boy, you've had more than enough time to read it. I believe the gratis period has passed.

  • @padybeats
    @padybeats 4 роки тому +3

    why you got a blocked nose tho bruh