History 2125F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Planned Economy, Roaring Twenties, Consumerism
6 Dec 2012
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Business and labour face war and peace immediate reactions to war government takes many hands command economy - boom everyone including women were involved roaring 20s (some places) business bigger and consumerism infancy. Pre war recession overseas credit tightens credit reliant business need less lumber, bricks, steel resource industries transportation. 5 leading female occupations domestic servent seamstress office clerk teacher phone operator there was a cost of living controller but he couldnt control inflation - people were making less but prices were going up. Business stongly linked to british firms went zoom into the war effort ones linked to the us remained stagnant unions doubles in size during the second world war in 4 years. Post war slump economy contracts and it falls off very rapidly: winnipeg instead of all having separate strikes all the workers came together to have a group strike - power in numbers.
