Who didn't benefit from the boom in the 1920's?
- Created by: Rachel Smith
- Created on: 05-05-13 12:24
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- Who didn't benefit from the 1920's BOOM?
- Farmers
- Little export
- Overproduction
- Drop in prices
- Workers in older industries
- Coal
- Competition from oil and electricity
- Strike of the coal industry
- Male workers paid $18 and female workers paid $9 for a 70-hour week
- At the time when $48 a week was the minimum wage
- Male workers paid $18 and female workers paid $9 for a 70-hour week
- Leather and textiles
- Competition from new man-made materials
- Coal
- The poor
- Damaged American industry
- Republican Policy
- Refused to interfere and deal with poverty
- The unemployed
- Growth in industry didn't create new jobs
- Machines took over
- At the peak of the BOOM in 1929, the number of employed hadn't decreased even though the amount of products had increased
- Included poor whites, blacks and Hispanic people
- Growth in industry didn't create new jobs
- Farmers
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