Monday, December 1, 2014

Ch.23

What economic innovations came in the 1920s, and what was their effect on different social groups?
In 1920s there was “Booming Business” in Americans life which helped to change their life style.  New goods entered to the market including electrical products which 60 of Americans used these product such as vacuum, refrigerators. Also, the automobile was one of the boom which noticeable on that time and it was the start of Ford and General Motors. Moreover, business boom became globally as well which many companies tend to build production faculties abroad US. This boom helped US economy but farmers had a hard time during this era because people moved from the agriculture to build these products. The wage was unequally between all the workers, it was depend on the place where they working in.

Women got her share in the new economic era which many of them worked outside the home. Most women workers held low paying and in unskilled positons. However, women were working in offices as secretaries or typists. As result, may women tend to go to school in order to get a good positions and I thinking it was a good pushing to them. Women also were courted as consumers which they women as kind of encouraging people to buy. ”women smiled behind the steering wheel.” ” Boyer, 556”. This boom business helped US which increased their economy by offering many jobs in industrial market and gives women an opportunity to involve more in workplace. But farmers had to leave their jobs because it was a hug demand on industrial market. 

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