Classism In Victorian England

Victorian Era England was a time of major change in Western culture and was a bustling hub for technology and advancements in the way human beings thought about the world around them. Though Victorian England was a time of prosperity and overall success for England it was also a time of classism and useless prejudice. Today in my essay I will delve into the classism of the era and how it affected the people of England. I will also assess whether or not the classism still effects people living in England today.
The Victorian era society was set up using four types of classes: the upper class comprised of nobility and the rich, the middle class comprised of owners and managers of vast business empires and the employees of said companies, the …show more content…
The working class had two sub classes which made the biggest portion of the working class. The skilled laborers workers worked under supervision from the higher ups they were the bosses when it came to manual labor. The unskilled workers were the laborers without very much skill in what they did. They worked under the skilled workers as employees and were directed by skilled workers.

How Classism affected Victoria era England and the World.
The lowest of Victorian England social classes were the poor of time period. The poor just like the working class had a resentment of higher classes and their standard of life. The poor was made up of two subclasses which included, the beggars and the prostitutes. The beggar subclass were some of the poorest individuals in Victorian England. They relied heavy on personal charity to get by. The beggars were seen by others classes as a bother and lazy for not trying to find work. The Final subclass of the poor were working women or in other less formal terms prostitutes. This subclass was made primarily of women and these women would provide sexual services in exchange for money. Many other classes frowned upon prostitutes the