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Who did not benefit from the economic boom in the 1920´s? (Farmers (They…
Who did not benefit from the economic boom in the 1920´s?
Blacks
Labourers
Sharecroppers
Three quarters of a million black farm workers, lost their jobs
They headed northwards (25% of black population)
Discrimination but more work oportunities in the North
Most car factories had an all-white policy
Black were hired in small numbers
60% of black women worked as low- paid domestic servants in Milwaukee
New Inmigrants
They were less educated than other workers
They took any job
Many worked in construction
Wages did not increase as much like the building boom
Inmigrants were cheap labourers
Work was being mechanised
Faced discrimination
High unemployment rate
Farmers
Farming income went from 22 billions of dollars (1919) to 13 billions of dollars (1928)
Farms made processes, like harvesting, more efficient by using new machinery
More than what could be sold was being produced
Surplus could no longer be sold to Europe because european farmers were able to cultivate enough
Canadian was supplying great amounts of grain to the world market
The price of grains collapsed
Farms in the USA went bankrupt
They were not able to pay mortages
Farms were evicted
Farms were sold to clear debts
Labourers were replaced with machinery
Many went to industrial cities or to California
The ones that stayed lived poorly
Big mechanised farms were doing well
42 percent of the american population lived in poverty
Precarious and overcrowded homes
No basic food
Clothing in bad conditions
Miners
Industries were undergoing mechanisation
Raw materials were being overproduced
Prices decreased
Wages decreased
Coal overproduction
Market was shrinking because of oil, gas and electricity
Mines closed
Wages were cut
Working days were longer
Poor safety precautions
Non union coal companies charged less for coal and selled more
Four month coal strike was made by the labourers (union)
Worked in old insdustries
Textile workers
Part of old industries that was were being modernised
Rayon was replacing cotton and wool
In 1926 male workes went on a strike in North Carolina
The weekly wage in New York was of 200 dollars
Women were paid 9 dollars a week
Men were paid 18 dollars per week