HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nellie Mcclung, Social Gospel, Hallelujah
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The country was changing at a rapid pace in this period and it ties with industrialization. The increase in urbanization, many were living in cities rather than rural areas, getting denser by the end of the 19 century. Gave people a sense that they were living in a place in common change. The nature of work was changing and it was disrupting the ideas of gender gender. People from new parts of the world were settling in the west: sense of social upheaval. Although these movements target individual it was about the society (the family and friends) Number of single women working in factories. Moving from a rural home into the cities: christian. The value of christians tied to christian beliefs: middle class (not exclusively, prominent role of women. In the reform movement, and changing political movements of women: state intervention. Many turned into the state: rescue canadian society. And the demise of the british empire.
