https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y en-us 2018-04-04 19:22:13 UTC 2025-10-03 05:22:01 UTC hello@padlet.com mtyaege https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262388059 The Great Depression affected women and men in quite different ways. The economy of the period relied heavily on  "sex-typed" work, or work that employers that was assigned to one sex or the other. And the work associated with males, especially manufacturing in heavy industries like steel production, which faced the deepest levels of lay offs during the Great Depression. Women primarily worked in service industries, and these jobs tended to continue during the 1930s. Clerical workers, teachers, nurses, telephone operators, and domestics largely found work. In many instances, employers lowered pay scales for women workers, and in the case of teachers, failed to pay their workers on time. But women's wages remained a necessary component in family survival. In many Great Depression families, women were the only breadwinners.]]> 2018-05-21 14:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262388059 mtyaege https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262388570 The rise of fascism became common in Latin American countries in the 1930s due to the Great Depression. Fascist governments were the result of a desire for nationalism, which rulers like Getulio Vargas of Brazil played on through propaganda. In Brazil and in other Latin American countries such as Mexico, responses to the Great Depression also led to a strengthening of the industrialization process. Brazil needed an economic alternative to the highly devalued coffee, which was very important to their economy at the time. The Vargas government started to purchase and burn coffee from the farmers, in order to avoid their complete bankruptcy.]]> 2018-05-21 14:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262388570 mtyaege https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262388800 Canada was hit hard by the Great Depression. The gross domestic product dropped 40%, and unemployment reached 27%. Many companies closed, as corporate profits of $398 million in 1929 turned into losses of $98 million as prices fell. Farmers in the prairies were hit hard as well by the collapse of wheat prices. By 1930, 30% of the labour force was out of work, and one fifth of the population became dependent on government assistance. Wages and prices fell. GNE had declined 42% from the 1929 levels. In some areas, the decline was far worse. In the rural areas of the prairies, two thirds of the population were on relief.]]> 2018-05-21 15:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262388800 mtyaege https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262389164 The New Deal is an economic program FDR created in order to end the Great Depression. 25 percent of Americans were unemployed due to, the dust bowl droughts, and four waves of bank failures.  FDR's New Deal introduced the Keynesian economic theory. It said government spending could end the depression by stimulating consumer demand. In FDR's first 100 days, he pushed Congress to pass 16 new agencies and laws. Together, they created "capitalism with safety nets and subsidies."]]> 2018-05-21 15:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262389164 mtyaege https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262389359 The high tariffs and war debts were the political cause of the Great Depression. America lent money to the UK and other European nations in WW1 reparations, which caused other economies to become reliant on the US economy.
After WW1 ended, American farmers had a difficult time making profits. The farm depression of the 1920s was a contributing economic factor to the Great Depression.]]> 2018-05-21 15:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mtyaege/czyzjxwgx43y/wish/262389359