Human Effects of the Depression
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- Human Effects on the Depression
- Electronics, aviation and the film industry continued to prosper
- People enemployed in those industries benefited from those lower prices
- In Chicago, nearly half labour force were unemployed in 1933
- Farmers bankrupted = drift to California
- Bans bankrupted = run on banks, banking crisis
- Fall in exports, production, sales, wages
- Not everyone suffered = 'new industries' prospered an people with steady wages benefited from falling prices
- 1933 - Unemployment reached 25%
- In Memphis the figure was 75%
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the roads and travelled as hobos, trying to find work wherever they could
- Black's, especially, hard hit - in Chaleston, in 1931, 70% of black people of working age were unemployed
- Unemployment in north especially - Among black communities = hobos and beggars
- Homelessness = Hooverville
- Charity = soup kitchens and bread lines
- Homelessness = Hooverville
- Bonus Army riots and demonstrations
- In Industrial cities of the north the rate was even higher as factories and businesses cut down o production or shut down completely
- Electronics, aviation and the film industry continued to prosper
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