American Labour and the Great Depression
Labor Unions During the Great Depression and New Deal
In 1933, the number of labor union members was around 3 million, compared to 5 million a decade before. Most union members in 1933 belonged to skilled craft ...
Great Depression Facts - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
Reduced prices and reduced output resulted in lower incomes in wages, rents, dividends, and profits throughout the economy. Factories were shut down, farms and ...
Strikes & Unions - Great Depression Project - University of Washington
As unemployment soared in the early years of the 1930s, the labor movement seemed helpless, unable to protect jobs let alone wage rates. But even before the ...
Chapter 5: Americans in Depression and War By Irving Bernstein
The Bureau of Labor Statistics later estimated that 12,830,000 persons were out of work in 1933, about one-fourth of a civilian labor force of over fifty-one ...
Chapter 2: The 1920s and the Start of the Depression 1921-1933
The period from 1921 to 1933 roughly encompassed an economic cycle that catapulted the nation to unprecedented heights of prosperity and then, in the great ...
The Big Strike: Labor Unrest in the Great Depression
Although union activity usually grinds to a halt during periods of mass unemployment, picket lines were as common as bread lines in 1934. A million and a half ...
Americans React to the Great Depression - Library of Congress
As stocks continued to fall during the early 1930s, businesses failed, and unemployment rose dramatically. By 1932, one of every four workers was unemployed.
By early 1929, the economies of Poland, Argentina, and Canada were contracting, and the U.S. economy followed in the middle of 1929. As Temin, Eichengreen, and ...
Labor Upheaval, Industrial Organization, and the Rise of the CIO
The Great Depression had left millions of Americans without work, income, or housing. The unemployed demanded jobs; young workers, women as well as men ...
Labor Union Activism Is on the Rise, Recalling the Great Depression
After a landmark strike at General Motors in 1936, union membership soared, and within two years, nearly two million Americans had staged ...
Labor Unions During the Great Depression - ThoughtCo
At the depths of the Depression, about one-third of the American workforce was unemployed, a staggering figure for a country that, in the decade ...
The Politics of U.S. Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal
In this detailed examination of the strategies pursued by both radical labor and the capitalist class in the struggle for industrial unionism.
The Great Depression and U.S. Foreign Policy - Office of the Historian
The Great Depression of the 1930s was a global event that derived in part from events in the United States and U.S. financial policies. As it lingered through ...
The Great Depression and the Labor Movement: A 1930s Reading List
In this groundbreaking work of labor history, Irving Bernstein uncovers a period when industrial trade unionism, working-class power, and ...
American labour and the Great Depression - ILO Research Repository
Title. American labour and the Great Depression ; Creators. Steve Fraser ; Contributors. International Labour Organization. Bureau for Workers' Activities.
This Land Is Your Land: The Great Depression, Migrant Farm ...
By 1933, almost 45 percent of farms faced foreclosure. Many Americans lost their life savings and were left destitute. Farmers in the Great ...
Organized Labor and the New Deal - Women & the American Story
New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's national program for stimulating the American economy during the Great Depression. Included employment, housing, ...
Strikes in the United States in the 1930s - Wikipedia
Strikes in the United States in the 1930s played a major role in reshaping the economy as it recovered from the Great Depression. Unions gained millions of ...
Labor Union Activism Is on the Rise, Recalling the Great Depression
After a landmark strike at General Motors in 1936, union membership soared. Within two years, nearly two million Americans staged strikes over ...
The Great Depression - Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
Economic conditions improved in early 1931 until a series of bank collapses in Europe sent new shockwaves through the American economy, leading to additional ...