HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Canadians, Hobo, European Canadian
15 Apr 2016
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Boom and bust: capitalism in crisis : dolls and the depression: consumer capitalism in crisis. Girls were wai+ng in line for product even though they couldn"t even a ord food. They would rather buy commercial product then get necessary needs. Big building of department store were being built but had to stop due to the economic crisis. When eaton"s open in 1930 there was a small department store, and during the economic crisis they had to use cheaper labour and used jewish immigrants. What light can the economic crisis of the past (great depression) help us understand the economic crisi of today. The numbers: canada was hit the hardest with the great depression, dropped by 40, unemployment was 1. 3 million people. A. inspec>ons, vouchers, and humilia>on: the process for applying for the job was embarrassing and you had to prove and show that you were poor.
