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Think of this in terms of material things—houses, transport, and the like. At the same time technical improvements in manufacture and transport have been proceeding at a greater rate in the last ten years than ever before in history […]. There is evidence that the revolutionary technical changes, which have so far chiefly affected industry, may soon be attacking agriculture. We may be on the eve of improvements in the efficiency of food production as great as those which have already taken place in mining, manufacture, and transport.
In quite a few years—in our own lifetimes I mean—we may be able to perform all the operations of agriculture, mining, and manufacture with a quarter of the human effort to which we have been accustomed. For the moment the very rapidity of these changes is hurting us and bringing difficult problems to solve.
Those countries are suffering relatively which are not in the vanguard of progress. We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come—namely, technological unemployment.
This means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour. But this is only a temporary phase of maladjustment.
All this means in the long run that mankind is solving its economic problem. I would predict that the standard of life in progressive countries one hundred years hence will be between four and eight times as high as it is to-day. And the lesson to be learned from him is to look at the present economic issues with some perspective.
The text can be found here. Skip to content Crisis Financial Crisis. Stock market crash, : A crowd gathers on Wall Street following the stock market crash on October 29, The Wall Street crash had a major impact on the United States and world economy, and the psychological effects reverberated across the nation as business became aware of the difficulties in securing capital markets investments for new projects and expansions. The decline in stock prices caused bankruptcies and severe macroeconomic difficulties, including contraction of credit, business closures, firing of workers, bank failures, a decrease in the money supply, and other economy-depressing events.
The failure set off a worldwide run on U. American banks began to fail in October , one year after the crash, when farmers defaulted on loans. There was no federal deposit insurance during that time, and bank failures were common. Depositors, worried that they might lose all of their savings, withdrew their deposited amounts the accounts through which money flows back and forth among financial institutions and changed them into hard currency the paper and coins we hold.
As withdrawals increased, the money multiplier decreased, meaning that money circulation throughout the economy slowed. This led to a decrease in the money supply, an increase in interest rates, and a significant decrease in aggregate investment.
Some 4, banks and other lenders ultimately failed. By , unemployment had surged to 24 percent, while stock prices plummeted by more than 80 percent.
More than 85, businesses declared bankruptcy. Industries that suffered the most included agriculture, construction, shipping, mining, and logging, as well as durable goods such as automobiles and appliances, whose purchase could be postponed. The economy reached bottom in the winter of — In , unemployment rose to 25 percent, with more than 11 million people seeking work. The agricultural losses were especially acute in the Great Depression. A great migration occurred in which approximately , farmers traveled west, hoping to find better land and opportunities in California.
Broke, baby sick, and car trouble! Some believe a change in government policy, specifically a change in interest rates by the federal government, could have slowed the downward steps into the Great Depression. Yet international influences also contributed to the Great Depression. The United States enacted extremely high tariffs, causing other nations to retaliate by establishing their own tariffs against American goods. Thus, American businesses lost several foreign markets in which they normally sold their goods.
International credit structure was another cause of the Depression. At the end of World War I, European nations owed enormous sums of money to American banks, but these debts were rarely repaid, and large banks suffered due to these debts. On a less widespread but still significant front, small American banks were crippled because U.
Economists still dispute how much weight to give the stock market crash of October as a cause of the Great Depression. It clearly changed sentiment about and expectations of the future, shifting the outlook from very positive to negative. The impact of the crash was merely to increase the speed at which the cycle proceeded to its next level. In , the Pecora Commission was established by the U. Senate to study the causes of the Wall Street crash.
The following year, the U. Stock markets around the world instituted measures to suspend trading in the event of rapid declines, claiming that the measures would prevent such panic sales. The explanations included high consumer debt, ill-regulated markets that permitted over-optimistic loans by banks and investors, and the lack of high-growth new industries, all interacting to create a downward economic spiral of reduced spending, falling confidence, and lowered production.
The Great Depression caused widespread homelessness and illness, fueled discrimination, and increased migrant labor. The Great Depression of the s brought thousands of people, and even entire regions of the country, to their knees. The sudden, catastrophic economic downturn that followed the Wall Street crash of caused widespread homelessness, poor health and early deaths, and the creation of shantytowns in urban areas. A massive, forced migration took laborers away from their homes to transient jobs in which they experienced discrimination and unfair working conditions and pay.
The economic desperation also fueled discrimination against people of color and women. The increase in homelessness, due to sudden unemployment and an inability to pay rent, concentrated thousands of Americans in squalid, urban settlements throughout the nation. Some of the men forced to live in these conditions possessed construction skills and were able to build houses out of stone.
Most people, however, resorted to building shelters out of cardboard, wood from crates and fences, scraps of metal, or whatever other materials were available to them. These makeshift homes offered scant protection from wind, rain, and the cold of winter.
Usually these settlements had no running water or bathrooms, and living conditions were extremely unsanitary, enabling illness to spread easily.
Local authorities did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and occasionally removed occupants for trespassing on private lands, although they were frequently tolerated or ignored out of necessity. There were various tactics employed to try to end the suffering of those forced to reside in squalid conditions.
Soup kitchens, invented by Benjamin Thompson and run by volunteers, gave free food to homeless Americans, who often received their only daily meal from these establishments. In , the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act and Taylor Grazing Act also became pivotal tools in the effort to prevent farms from failing and to add livestock feeding areas, both of which helped reduce homelessness.
After , the economy recovered, unemployment fell, and shanty eradication programs destroyed all of the remaining Hoovervilles. In , an estimated 75 percent of the United States felt some effect from the storms, including New England, where red snow fell.
The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops, and other techniques to prevent wind erosion.
Farmers grew more and more crops, despite the prices of each of the crops beginning to decline. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains displaced the natural deep-rooted grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. As the s progressed, the soil continued to dry, turn to dust, and blow eastward and southward in large, dark clouds. At times, these clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York and Washington, D.
During black blizzards, normal activities such as breathing, eating, and walking outside became very difficult tasks. More than houses had to be torn down after one storm alone, and more than , Americans were left homeless. Some residents of the Great Plains, especially in Kansas and Oklahoma, became ill and died of dust pneumonia or malnutrition. By , 2. With their land barren and homes seized in foreclosure, many families were forced to leave farms in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Americans primarily migrated west looking for work, although most found that the economic conditions were not much better than the ones they had left, given the pervasiveness of the Great Depression throughout the country. There were two kinds of migrant workers: seasonal urban dwellers and permanent migrants who followed crops from one place to another in order to make a living. For both categories, the hard work produced little reward.
Because of their exclusion from federal and state legislation that protected workers against exploitation and unfair labor practices, migrant workers earned lower wages than other farm laborers. The jobs were hazardous, while housing and health conditions were extremely poor. Migrant Mother : In this famous Dorothea Lange photograph, a destitute mother and two of her seven children take a break from picking peas in California.
The image became synonymous with the plight of migrant farm workers during the Depression. Film star Will Rogers, who had Oklahoma roots, jokingly remarked that Okies moving to California increased the average intelligence of both states. The Depression was an extremely difficult time for white Americans in the lower classes. Yet it was even worse for other races, especially for African Americans, as the hard economic conditions once again forced virulent racism and discrimination into the open in American society.
Unemployment among black workers grew to almost 50 percent by The U. Department of Labor deported 82, Mexicans between and , while almost half a million people returned to Mexico either voluntarily or after being tricked or threatened into believing they had no other choice.
Many of these people had immigrated legally, but lacked the proper documentation to prove their status. Government officials also ignored the legislation automatically designating children born in the country as legal U. Discrimination against women was also widespread, with many believing sexist claims that women were stealing available jobs from men.
In a survey conducted in and , 77 percent of schools refused to hire married women as teachers, while 63 percent of schools fired females already working as teachers but who then chose to marry.
President Hoover attempted to stem the Great Depression but was thwarted by political influences, economic realities, and his own ideals. The onset of the Great Depression tested the ideals and government policies of President Herbert Hoover, who firmly believed cooperation between public and private spheres would lead to long-term growth in the economy.
Hoover feared too much intervention or coercion by the government would destroy individuality by fostering a reliance on assistance and reducing the incentive to work. Yet this proved increasingly problematic as the U. He emphasized that rugged individualism was not laissez-faire economics, which he denounced. Herbert Hoover : Hoover addresses a large crowd on the campaign trail in A self-described Progressive and reformer, Hoover saw the presidency as a vehicle for improving the conditions of all Americans by encouraging public-private cooperation.
A strong proponent of balanced budgets and unwilling to run a deficit to fund welfare programs, Hoover carried his idea of rugged individualism into the Great Depression that followed the crash, insisting that the federal government should not interfere with the American people during the economic crisis.
Yet in spite of his personal, libertarian beliefs, Hoover still pursued policies aimed at pulling the country out of the Depression.
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