5,1 CHANGING DUTCH SOCIETY

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

5,1 Changing Dutch society

Dutch emigration

babyboom

2.4 Pillarisation

In the 19th century the Dutch society was divided into four 'pillars'. 

They had their own news, (sport)clubs, 

The beginning of a new era

- Pillarisation

- welfare state (Drees)

- depillarisation

Growth of the economy

policy of controlled wages

wages explosion, 

consumer society

Groningen gas field 

A Dutch family watching television in the late 1950s. The austerity of the post-war years gradually made way for a consumer society.

Guest workers invited

Immigrants from former colonies

• Soekarno declaration of independance
• Moluccas fought in the KNIL went to the Netherlands (1951)
• Moluccan soldiers were fired as soon as they arrived in the Netherlands
• They were housed in dreadful conditions
• The Surinames diaspora

Caraïbisch Nederland

Summary=

How different groups of people migrated from and to the Netherlands

.........2025

Time to work:

• Read par 5.1
• Writing assignment