How did the Black Plague effect social structures?

[the lakeshow]

[deafeningcup190]

The rapid drop in population resulted in a better quality of life for the common man. There was more land to go around and wages rose because the labor force wasn't as big as it was before the plague.

[Randal]

The Black Death had a devastating impact on local communities, and the class of survivors created a country of higher wages and peasants with a determined sense of their own worth.
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[Kim rum]

The Peasants Revolt

[Banana]

Sometimes it enticed peasants to revolt and other times, the majority of times, it did not. When it did it was usually because without enough people working the peasantry went hungry.

It created a state of panic and reaffirmed the need for noble militias or a national army (depending on the time period) to quell chaos. Yet while it made such security crucial, it also weakened the providers of such security (nobility or monarchy) as peasants blamed their lords for not feeding them.

It empowered the Church, as that was where all looked during such times.

It increased localism and weakened national tendencies by reducing the spread of information.

It profoundly hurt mercantile classes who could not find markets to sell to, and found the roads dangerous with increased banditry (a product of the increase in hunger of peasants).