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Roaring 20s - Coggle Diagram
Roaring 20s
Post WW1
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Industries
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Was followed up by the chemical, aviation and electronic industry
More traditional manufacturing industries like food, clothing and household goods adopted the assembly line
Unions
More employers adopted welfare capitalism by providing social benefits to their workers with 'company unions' controlled by management
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The 'American Plan' adopted by employers was to have an 'open-shop' policy - a workplace free of government regulation and unions
Many large employers used strike-breakers, private detectives, and blacklisted union members to discourage worker from forming unions
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Money
Most Americans could buy more consumer goods than ever before, and at cheaper prices
Americans living in cities had electricity, 2/3 connected by 1930
They could buy radios, vacuums, washing machines and fridges
Marketing, movies, photographs and paintings all celebrated the American businessman, the factory and the machine
However
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Working-class factory workers, farmers and minority groups like Mexicans and African-Americans barely made a living wage
In 1926, civil rights leader William Du Bois asserted "We have today in the United States, cheek by jowl, Prosperity and Depression."
Government Policies
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Business lobbyists persuaded the government to lower taxes, while maintaining pressure on unions and imposing high tariffs on overseas goods
Progressive legislation to end child labour and establish a minimum wage for women in DC was successfully challenged
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