History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1395 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Growth Without Shared Wages
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The idea
Industrial production rose thirty percent between nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty-nine, Digital History says, and income per person climbed from five hundred twenty dollars to six hundred eighty-one.
In practice
Wages stagnating or falling in mining, transportation and manufacturing while productivity soared.
Where people slip
Growth that did not reach wages left workers unable to buy what factories made.
Your place on the trail
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