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THE ECONOMIC DOWNFALL: A JAZZ TALE OF MISERY
Conclusion
The Roaring Twenties was not such a prosperous age as it is known, for almost a half of American society the era was lived in poverty and the prosperity of some determined sectors just marked the diference between the rich and the poor, which was also caused by discrimination and ended in a whole economic depression.
What was done to help the poor?
Politics
Agrarian and reforming lobby united
Farmers' relief
Aggravated the situation: division between rural and urban areas
Charity
States established
departments of public or social welfare
Prioritize spending on welfare of the eldery and young mothers
Dependecy on social workers
Which groups missed out the prospeity in the 1920s?
Women
Little improvement on women´s payment and job quality
Menial occupations and low status
Supplementary wage-earners
Common professions were focussed on men
Trade Unionists
Declined after the war
Republican Government and Judiciary System
Anti-union judgements
Big businesses
Anti-Unionists
"Yellow Dog" contract (agree not afiliating a trade union)
African-Americans
They lived in poverty among ghettos and with poor job wages
Attracted to cities by part time jobs during the war but faced unemployment and poverty after
Post war poverty and segregation
Poor education and farmer jobs
Migrated from rural old-south to modern-north
Had to face racism and other issues that forced them into menial labour and even segregation into ghettoes
Found opportunity in industrial and manufacturing jobs , but had the worst-paid jobs
From Manhattan, Harlem or Philadelfia ghettos to cities in Ney York and Chicago
The migration of over six million African-American is known as "the great migration"
Native Indian Americans
They were stripped of their lands, culture, and rights
As a consequence they faced
Crime
Low life expectancy
Alcoholism
High infant mortality
Lived in poor reservations
Marginated from society
Farmers
Their were driven into poverty mainly due to Overproduccion
Output increase due to
New machinery, better-quality seeds and borrowing to pay for new implements
Produccion was maximized during war because of high demand, but after WW1 demand fell while production levels maintained
Difference between offer and demand caused cheap prices for produced food
Their low profits gave them no chance to repay loans and farmers were characterized for struggling against debts
Economic difficulties in rural areas led to rural activism and more government support.
Over-production was worsened by 1929 economy crash
Urban workers were not abble to pay good prices for food
This resulted in food being sold at prices under the cost of production
Total number of farms declined for the first time in U.S.A.
How had this come about to be possible?
Economy
High profits given by productivity
Paid out to investors
Workers received small wage increases
Rugged individualism
Little or no welfare support for the poor
Laissez-faire approach to such issues as safety at work.
Why was so little done to help the poor?
Prosperity
Permamently eradicate poverty
No need for intervention
Resigned acceptance amongst poor individuals
Their lot in life
Inevitable
Investigative journalism created deeper understanding of poverty
Social workers and activists pressed to reform
Government
Not enough capacitation
Intervation to provide relief from poverty ≠ commonly-held concept of the government's role
Thought intervention went against the freedom of the people to provide for themselves
To direct others to reform practices or make provision
Republican administrators
Focus was only on law, order, and national defence
Social responsability was not work of the state