Wasn’t the real remedy for the Great Depression the employment of women?
Before WW II, it was mostly men in the workforce.
During WW II, men went to war, and FDR had to put “Rosie Riveter” to work in jobs that traditionally employed men.
Employing men in the military and women in the workforce essentially doubled production by simply using a source of production not tapped before.
(Isn’t GDP output one of the key factors in defining a recession or depression?)
(These short lessons in economics are designed to help you liberals who slept through history classes and are sitting ducks for anything the media wants you to believe. These are called “facts”. You may want to get to know them and what they look like.)
Galaxie Girl: government spending is part of the formula for GDP. That would include the entire budget, which would include what was at that time the Department of War.
What is it about this question that confuses everyone?
Workforce 1920-1940: men
Workforce 1941-1945: men + women
How can anyone claim that employing women added nothing to the GDP?
Linda: right on target, just don’t forget the men who risked quite a bit more than women, if only to prevent the women from speaking Japanese or German by necessity.
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For the expropriation of the banks without compensation and under workers control
Sacking of workers and destruction of jobs have to been forbidden; occupations of the sites of work that close, opening of the books to workers control, for expropriation of the big companies, without compensation under workers control.
For immediate increases of wages and salaries, for a sliding scale of wages and working hours; less work, work for all! Full wages for the unemployed! Full equality for immigrant and native workers!
Down with the capitalist governments! No to class collaboration or participation in managing the crisis together with the representatives of capital, for workers power- the dictatorship of the proletariat- and a socialist way out from the crisis!
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No. And the Depression happened prior to WWII.
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At that, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan should have kept us away from the problem we’re in now.
The great depression began to end around 1933 – then in 1937, we went into a recession, which ended before WWII.
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hahahaha KICK AWAY! I am watching the liberals reply to this as well! hahahahaha
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While I normally agree with you, I have to disagree about this. Employing men in the military did not boost production of anything – they weren’t making anything. The men could have been producing all those war products for other countries (say, if we had managed to stay out of the war, and had continued to be the supplier of military equipment that we started out as), the women could have stayed home, and the GDP would have still been the same.
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Not really, WW2 was what ended the Great Depression overall. Aside from women working, it gave American’s jobs to work. Also when men got home they got a GI bill and could get educated thus getting better jobs, and then spend more money. So it wasn’t women working, it was giving new work in general.
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I don’t know about that, but it is an interesting premise. On the opposing side I would ask if women really expanded the work force or did they replace men who were at war? You mention that men went to war, but still state that the work force doubled. I’m thinking production expanded because of needed war time construction and industry. FDR also stopped/slowed wasteful spending by freezing non-defense spending at prewar levels.
I’m interested to hear your take on my position. Email if you would like.
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…”lessons in economics”..”Facts”…lol.. That’s amazing how uneducated repugs could be that proud of their own stupidity…
Not a single fact straight…amazing
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No, the real remedy for the Great Depression was WWII. The nations production lines were put into operation to build materials for the war effort.
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Yes, it was all about jobs. Not give aways.
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Nice try, but there are plenty of women in the workforce (and have been for decades) but we are still an a recession.
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So you think going to war is a good thing?
The reason is that during the war there was plenty of employment in the industries. Whether it was men or women working those industries was unimportant. It was the fact that we had more jobs than people to work them. This continued after WWII due to our country being the only one who’s industrial base suffered no attacks during the war and we were in a position to take advantage of new global markets. The war and not the people doing the work was the key factor. If women hadn’t gone to work then we would have imported labor from another country or eased restrictions on child labor laws to fill those jobs
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We women held this country together, during the depression. I do think you are referring to WWII when we needed to work.We saved our country until our men could come back.
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Then how was the “dust bowl” problem taken care of? I think it was a government scientist who started land conversation!
BTW—-FDR giving into conservatives caused the recession extending the depressin into the WW2 era!
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Thanks for the lesson professor… but its not entirely correct and you are grossly over simplifying.
I think you might have been the one sleeping through class, or else you’d realize that your claim is a small piece of the pie, you are over generalizing and your timeline is way off.
You might want to rethink your lesson plan.
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I see what your getting at but when rosie the riveter went to work it helped, but after the war doubling the work force effectively lowered the standard wage.
Supply and demand. This is the reason women have to work now we need two bread winners. We seem to effectively hobbled ourselves, but to move forward is the only solution….it’s not 1950 anymore.
These temp jobs created by the stimulus package will end and it will further tax the overloaded state unemployment system. More long term training is what is needed, but this draft of the bill has little of that and an overflow of projects that will only fill Democratic pockets.
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They saved our country. On the flip side I wish that they’d go back into the home more to raise our children. Today’s child lacks so much more when there are two income earners in the home. Women look for too much equality. Also, further, we’ll never see a female in the White House given the hate that women have toward one another, i.e. Hillary and Sarah.
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LAK,
What a great aspect. How my heart aches for the whole picture.
Thanxxxxx for the question.
I have a 1934 NY Times library bound volume. Time to get it out again and read some truth. Well according to then and there.