Employment In Ww2

The New Deal of 1933 by Franklin Roosevelt helped America’s economy by providing jobs, insurances, and many more. Although the New Deal did not end the Great Depression, it reduced the severity of it. The New Deal was a group of U.S government programs and it helped America a kick start in recovering the economy. For example, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of 1935 provided jobs for unemployed people. Millions of people were employed to carry out public works projects such as the construction of public buildings and roads. The unemployment also decreased to 2% and many Americans were working in the armed services, defense industries, etc. According to www.socialwelfare.library.com , “The WPA–during it’s 8 years of existence–employed

Companies that were going bankrupt months before were now literally begging for labourers and some even suffered from a shortage of workers. This was mainly due to the rapid production levels the country needed to produce military equipment including ammunition and vehicles etc. A short time after the U.S. declaration of war, the unemployment rate dropped a massive ten per cent from its previous amount. After taxes, business profits almost doubled and industrial output increased massively at 96 per cent. Government expenditure also sored dramatically to 53 per cent of GDP at its peak in 1945, in comparison to around 20 per cent of GDP previous to the war. This contributed to business recovery and gave companies the kick start they needed. Due to productivity doubling, consumer goods also expanded. The war consumed one third of industrial output and this ensured a constant supply of goods, the U.S being the only country with a significant rise in supply despite rationing. Wages also rose 50 per cent higher by 1944, this was a combination of over-time pay and wage increases etc.

During World War II the United States began to manufacture war materials to support its allies through lucrative government defense contracts as automobile factories like Ford and General Motors put aside their usual business operations and began to produce tanks and airplanes, shipyards too expanded their operations . The demand for war equipment naturally increased the demand for labor and as a result helped pull the American economy out of the grips of the Great Depression. Then as the unthinkable happened, on December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, which drew many young American men into the battlefield.

Pre-World War II the Great Depression which lasted from 1929-1939 created 15% unemployment. Many lost their homes, cars, and life style. Prior to the great depression the U.S. went into a recession in 1918-1919 and again in 1920. This was a result of the loans we gave to France and Britain during World War I and the money given to Germany to pay war reparations. The loans were never paid back and that dragged the U.S. into a recession. In an effort to combat the growing unemployment rate President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the New Deal. This was a series of programs enacted 1933-1938 focusing of relief, recovery and reform. FDR programs help put American to work on public works project, reestablished the banking system with more regulations, and stimulated the private housing industry to help get

The New Deal increased the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. For example, the Social Security Act caused people to start relying on the government to provide them with a source of income as support after retirement. The Fair Labors Standards Act is another example of when the government started to step in to protect the rights of American workers, defining exactly what they were entitled to. The New Deal programs led to the creation of the modern welfare state, in which Americans started to depend more on the government for relief. In times of a recession, Americans now know that the government will lower taxes and increase spending, and make sure that they won’t lose everything. The government started to take more control of the economy, which impacted the lives of Americans, and signaled a change from before the New Deal, as the government had taken on a laissez-faire policy.

This investigation will explore the question: To what extent did women working factory jobs change feminine roles in society? The years from 1939 to 1945 will be the focus of this investigation, to allow for an analysis of women’s employment before and during the war.

Prior to WWII the economy was in bad shape. The U.S. was in a depression. Unemployment was at twenty five percent nationally, numerous banks and businesses had failed, and gross domestic product fell. The war brought jobs like building tanks and ships. Everyone had a job. Female employment dramatically increased. Unemployment was virtually wiped out in the U.S. Wages even increased. Within one year 86,000 tanks, 296,000 planes, 6,000 ships, and 15 million guns were produced. People started helping out the war in any way they could. Many people started saving metals to be recycled into military material, some planted victory gardens to grow fruits and vegetables for personal use during food shortages, and people started paying taxes to help build military equipment, which was a small price to pay to win the war. Overall, the economy during the war was good. Per capita income had risen from $691 in 1939 to $1515 in 1945. World War II proved to be catalyst for American economy.

World War Two was the big boost that the United State's economy had needed to finally end the Great Depression. When war was finally declared on Japan in December of 1941, the American government quickly appropriated billions of dollars to build up the nations military. Millions of men were conscripted, billions of bullets were made, .3 million aircraft built, tens of thousands of ships and tanks produced on the production lines. Anyone who had been looking for a job before the war now had an opportunity to work, and that was exactly what millions of Americans did. Even the agricultural industry flourished. Record breaking harvests were brought in during the war, food and supplies were shipped all over the world to American troops and allies.

You make good points when referring to the corporations that the New Deal influenced. With the creation of AAA, NYA, WPA, and CCC; Americans were able to get back on their feet, and the government was able to support the people in their time of need. The employment established after the Depression did have a grave impact on the connection between people and the society of the 1930's. The structures build thereafter gave Americans the ability to branch out, and find new paths. I also agree with you in the matter that in the beginning of the New Deal there was a skyrocket of unemployment, bank closings, and business failure; not long after did those begin to decrease with time.

When World War II started in Europe in 1939, the United States of America did not enter until December 8, 1941, when the Japanese bombed on Pearl Harbor. When the Americans entered the war the United States economy changed and the nation immediately demanded more from its men and women. The World War II set a tension on every civilian in the United States. A particular area that the war affected was the work force. Many of the men were being recruited to help in the war. While, the men was in the war factories were rapidly running out of people to work in their factory. This was an awful event inside the arms manufacture as the soldiers being sent off into the war relying on their products. With fewer men available to work daily, the administration

     United States entry into the war provided a temporary solution for many problems that had baffled New Dealers. The war, not the New Deal, triggered massive industrial

World War II was a period of great economic diversity for the United States Of America. The war pulled America out of the Great Depression and turned it into a superpower that prospered in economic and political power after 1945. The American industry was radically revived and oriented into producing materials for the war effort. This led to a surge in organized labor for workers and bringing together of America.

The New Deal was a set of reforms and programs set in by the President of the time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). It started when he took office in 1933 and swiftly tried to stabilize the American economy. It started off when he passed his Emergency Bank Act in which he pleaded with people not to withdraw their money. He then ended Prohibition, which allowed the purchase of alcohol, streaming money into the dying economy. He created the WPA in order to provide jobs for those who were unemployed when he released his Second New Deal. On December 7, 1941, the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor and this signified our entrance into WW2, which would lead to our economy experiencing a boom.

The New Deal has received credit in our educational system as being a major governmental tool that assisted in getting the United States out of the Great Depression. Many do not realize that while the New Deal helped many by providing work in the public job projects; it also held back those same people from entering the private sector jobs. Private sector jobs were the key catalyst for getting the United States out of the Great Depression. It was not until our military personnel returned home at the end of World War II that our country began to fully escape the clutch of the Great Depression. The improvement in the economy was mainly due to the mass influx of trained workers returning home and entering the work force. There had been a huge part of our human and raw materials tied up in the war effort that limited the growth of the public sector of the economy. After four years of war there was a pent up demand for domestic consumption that boosted the US economy out of the depression that held the economy captive since the late 1920’s.

World War II brought the US out of this period of slow growth. The military needed tanks, planes, guns, and everything else needed for the war effort. People were either back to work or overseas fighting. Production and growth rates reached new highs.