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Sociologist Report. By: Ryan Trevino, Max Hanson, and Alison Cable. The Great Depression; Family Fun. To pass the time and with little to no money families would play new board games such as "Monopoly" and "Scrabble" which were first sold during the 1930s.
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Sociologist Report By: Ryan Trevino, Max Hanson, and Alison Cable
The Great Depression; Family Fun • To pass the time and with little to no money families would play new board games such as "Monopoly" and "Scrabble" which were first sold during the 1930s. • Some families had fun putting together puzzles. • Baseball was popular to play and to watch (in person, not on television). • Life was made to be enjoyed, even going to school could be fun by racing on horseback on the way there.
The Great Depression; Crime • During the Great Depression, crime came in many forms, there were a lot of stories about gangsters in the newspapers. • Miners and autoworkers sometimes turned violent during labor strikes. • Some minor problems were; stealing watermelons, overturning outhouses, and illegal fishing techniques. • The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Prohibition Amendment, was adopted in the 1920s and made the making, selling, possessing, and consuming of alcoholic drinks illegal. • In the early 1930s, liquor was illegal, but people in Nebraska found ways to buy or make their own alcohol. • Other illegal activities such as prostitution and gambling, also grew during the 1930s.
The Great Depression; Schooling • The value of farm land plummeted, and that meant that property taxes that supported schools fell as well. • Some school districts couldn't pay their teachers. • One-room schools were still common in York County, Nebraska, and other Great Plains states. • Children from a verity of grades sat in one room, often taught by a teacher that was not much older than the students. • Teenagers sometimes had to quit school to work full time on the family farm.
The Great Depression; Farm Life • The York County farm families didn't have heat, light or indoor bathrooms like the people who lived in town. • Many farm families raised most of their own food, eggs, and chickens. They would also get milk and beef from their own cows, and vegetables from their gardens. • Farm families would get together with neighbors at school programs, church dinners, or dances. • When the dryness, heat, and grasshoppers destroyed the crops, farmers were left with no money to buy groceries or make farm payments. • Some people lost hope and moved away.
The Great Depression; Causes • The cause of the great depression was thought to have begun in October 1929, when the big stock market crashed. • It really didn’t take full affect till 1933, when there were a lot of runs on banks. • More than 11,000 of the nation’s 25,000 banks had failed. • The nation's total income rose from $74.3 billion in 1923 to $89 billion in 1929
Migrant Workers Then • A migrant worker is someone who is a migrant (someone who moves from place to place) that only workers for a few months. • They live, in horrible conditions, on the farm they worked at and food and water was provided. • Farmers would house migrant workers in shanties, shacks, chicken coops, barns, portable wagons, and even open fields. • They get paid a small amount. • Migrant workers in California who had been making 35 cents per hour in 1928 made only 14 cents per hour in 1933. • Sugar beet workers, in Colorado, wage’s decrease from $27 an acre in 1930 to $12.37 an acre three years later. • Sociologist Paul S. Taylor estimated that there were between 200,000 and 350,000 migrant workers traveling throughout the United States, in 1937. • Migrant workers were shunned by the local communities, often seen as racial and class outcasts.
Migrant Workers Now • There are about 175 million migrants around the world today. • Over half of them are women. • More than half of all farm workers, 52 of every 100, are unauthorized workers with no legal status in the United States. • In Bahrain there are over 458,000 migrant workers, around 77 percent of the total work force, public and private. • The number of child laborers on America's farms today range from 300,000 to 800,000. • Children who are 14 or older can work unlimited hours in the fields before or after school hours. • They can start work at age 12 if accompanied by a parent.
Sites: • Life on the GD- http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_22.html • Causes of the GD- http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/ • http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/index.html • Migrant workers info- http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?zid=3b910316b8685294b829ad8774e7386c&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3404500355&userGroupName=lanc41582&jsid=961bb480a003d44c401a0f7118808ef2 • Migrant workers now- http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/subjects-covered-by-international-labour-standards/migrant-workers/lang--en/index.htm • http://www.extension.org/pages/9960/migrant-farm-workers:-our-nations-invisible-population • http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/30/bahrain-abuse-migrant-workers-despite-reforms • http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/migrantchildren.html