Workforce by Stella Erickson https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1 The workforce during the WW1. en-us 2020-12-01 20:34:48 UTC 2023-03-29 11:59:18 UTC hello@padlet.com What was the National War Labor Board (NWLB) AND how did it help mobilize the U.S. workforce? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977581872 The NWLB was authorized in 1918. The NWLB was to prevent strikes that would disrupt the production in the war industries. 

]]> 2020-12-01 20:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977581872 How many labor disputes did the NWLB solve during its short existence AND what did it seek to improve with regards to working conditions? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977613129 NWLB settled only 72/ 847 cases that they knew of. The goal of the NWLB was to improve working conditions, wages, and open themselves to negotiation with the employees.]]> 2020-12-01 20:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977613129 What was the Great Migration AND how did it help mobilize the U.S. workforce? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977631772 The Great Migration was the relocation of over 6 million African Americans from the south moving to Midwest, North, and West. The Great Migration helped the U.S workforce start building a new place for themselves. They were more and more people starting to work and creating new places. 


]]> 2020-12-01 20:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977631772 How did women mobilize the workforce? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977642899 Women mobilized the workforce starting with Anna Howard Shaw, she became a driving force for mobilizing women in the workforce. Eight million women volunteered as Red Cross workers. Seven thousand women applied to “Hello Girls” a switchboard operator who worked for the US Army signal corps.]]> 2020-12-01 20:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977642899 What type of jobs did women take during WWI? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977651373 Women took on the jobs of working on land, unloading coal, transport, in hospitals, and building ships and doing labor.


]]> 2020-12-01 20:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/977651373 How many women remained in the workforce following the end of WWI? Explain, in detail, why some women stayed working and some choose to return home. ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/978192238
  • Since so many men were going to the front line for work women had to step in. In July of 1914 3.3 million British women worked in a paid workplace. In 1917 there were 4.7 million women working. 


    • ]]>     2020-12-02 01:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/978192238     What industries boomed during WWI? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/978245246 The aircraft industry boomed in WWI spreading to Dayton, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; Fisher Body in Detroit, Michigan; and Standard Aero in New York. These companies did not go without criticism; many people were vocal about the aircrafts booming.  ]]> 2020-12-02 01:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/978245246 How did war improve America’s finances? ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/982330315  The war improved America’s finances by more factories opening up to create mass production, more women working, and having price controls. During this time there were also Victory bonds and Liberty bonds. 


    ]]>     2020-12-03 02:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/982330315     How many men were left without work once they returned from serving overseas? Explain, in detail, how the government addresses the problem of unemployed men ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/982335539 By April 1919, an estimated amount of 40% of men were unemployed due to injuries. Men coming back could come back with amputations, wrecked lungs, mulitiations, emasculation, and blindness.


    ]]>     2020-12-03 02:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/982335539     How many jobs did WWI create? Explain, in detail, the impact this had on the American economy. ericksonsa https://padlet.com/ericksonsa/n25jo1mrrqj5n2f1/wish/982339165 It's hard to give an exact estimate on the increase in jobs during WWI but these are some percentages. 23.6% of the working population in 1914 to between 37.7% 46.7% in 1918. 


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