There was a noticeable shift throughout the twentieth century, as young people gravitated away from these types of hard, menial jobs to take advantage of education and employment opportunities in the growing towns and cities. Morel, were generally uneducated and would work in the mines their whole lives. In the early twentieth century in Britain, miners were considered working class people and, like Mr. These areas were entirely reliant on the coal mines for work because they were generally rural and slightly removed from the large, northern manufacturing towns, like Nottingham, where Paul gets a job in the novel. The housing estate the Morels live on is typical of the mining communities which sprung up across the north of England during the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. Sons and Lovers is set in the early decades of the twentieth century in an industrial mining community.
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