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The Great Depression: Hard Times for Workers

The Great Depression: Hard Times for Workers. 1929-1939. Worker’s Challenges. Stores closed, factories stopped, & millions of unemployed looked for jobs 1929, 1.5 million unemployed, 1933= 15 million 50% in Chicago, 80% in Toledo, OH. Worker’s Challenges. Wages ( 10 cents an hr.)

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The Great Depression: Hard Times for Workers

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  1. The Great Depression:Hard Times for Workers 1929-1939

  2. Worker’s Challenges • Stores closed, factories stopped, & millions of unemployed looked for jobs • 1929, 1.5 million unemployed, 1933= 15 million • 50% in Chicago, 80% in Toledo, OH

  3. Worker’s Challenges • Wages (10 cents an hr.) • Avg. income fell by 1/3 • Reduced the # of hrs. • Immigration

  4. Worker’s Challenges • More difficult= African Americans • First fired • Domestic & agricultural workers lost jobs(Bronx Slave Market) • % of women working • Hoover out of touch

  5. Life in the City • Difficult= poverty • City gov’ts, religious groups, & charitable orgs. provided relief • “Neighbors helping neighbors”

  6. Life in the City • Daily struggle to eat= breadlines for soup & bread • Hunger was widespread by 1932 • Malnutrition= long-term effects

  7. Life in the City • Homelessness= serious urban problem • Evicted from homes • Shantytowns—makeshift shelters built out of packing boxes, scrap lumber, etc... • Hoovervilles

  8. Hoovervilles • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfylLnHjcu0

  9. Quick Review • What 3 problems did workers face in the 1930s? • Why was the Great Depression more difficult for African Americans? • Why did the employment of women rise? • What were the Shantytowns of the Great Depression called? Why?

  10. Activity: Workers Challenges Poster • Partners • Create a poster depicting an event related to a challenge/challenges workers dealt with during the depression • Label the challenges • Example: losing a job, supporting a family, getting evicted, moving to a shantytown and building a shelter, etc…

  11. Activity: Worker’s Challenges Skit • Groups of 4 • Create an outline for a skit depicting an event related to a challenge/challenges workers dealt with during the depression • Example: losing a job, supporting a family, getting evicted, moving to a shantytown and building a shelter, etc… • Present the skit

  12. Activity • Imagine that is 1933 • You are autoworkers who have recently been laid off with the rest of your friends/coworkers • Write a series of THREE diary entries detailing the effects of unemployment for themselves and others during the Great Depression • Try to discuss the psychological implications that chronic unemployment would have on an individual

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