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What were the most important influences affecting middle class housing between 1918 and 1970?
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What were the most important influences affecting middle class housing between 1918 and 1970? In 1918, Britain's middle class was larger than it had ever been before. The increase in clerical and service industry jobs meant a greater percentage of the population was doing non-manual work. Through these types of occupations, the middle class found they were earning a regular income, and as a result began to money manage, the majority having a bank account by the outbreak of the Second World War. The middle class also had 'a widespread agreement [...] about the proper standards of middle class life'.1 This agreement coupled with an interest in money management led the middle class into becoming owner-occupiers of their houses. McKibbin argues that a rapid fall in construction costs, the willingness of building societies to supply the middle class with mortgages and the fact that 'British tax laws made owner-occupation an attractive...
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