Declining industries
- Created by: Tom Lennard
- Created on: 26-01-14 13:00
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- Declining industries
- Coal industry
- The use of oil and its derivatives become more widespread
- Coal faced further competition from gas and electricity which were becoming more widely used.
- Many mines during the 1920's and many miners were made redundant.
- There were many strikes from miners for more pay/better working conditions but they were rarely successful
- By 1929 the average wage of a coal-miner was about $100 and for a brick layer it was more than $300 a month.
- The rail road industry
- Owing to the huge growth of car ownership in the 1920's, the volume of passenger traffic on the rail road suffered
- The rapid development of a nationwide read network, together with with the availability of cheap cars/petrol presented a very serious challenge for the rail road industry.
- These challenges proved too hard to meet.
- Textiles industry
- Tariffs - since tariffs were lowered on goods the textile industry faced competition from foreign countries.
- Rayon - This man-made fibre was far cheaper to produce than wool, cotton or silk.
- Fashion - women's fashion had changed, the dresses were much shorter and they needed less material than they did before the war.
- Impact on workers - they employed women and children to keep wages lower but the supreme court had made child labour unconstitutional
- Coal industry
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