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Spot The Difference Attitudes towards people onwelfare benefit in the 19th and 21st centuries  

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Spot The Difference Attitudes towards people on welfare benefit in the 19th and 21st centuries Welfare benefits are given by the UK government to help certain people with low income or to meet certain needs. To be clear on the people who receive welfare benefits, it is necessary to divide everyone into classes. Even if people refuse to admit they are in a 'class' there are clear characteristics of what class they belong to. This division that is still active now, was even more operational in the 19th century. It was a way of life that the higher you were in the social class and hierarchy, then the more successful and prosperous you were to become in life. It was also some times a case of where you lived. It was Charles Booth that marked on maps of London where each social class lived. Places like Mile End Road and Orsman Road...

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