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  2. At the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9% of the nation's total work force, 12,830,000 people, were unemployed. Wage income for workers who were lucky enough to have kept their jobs fell 42.5% between 1929 and 1933. It was the worst economic disaster in American history.

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    During the Great Depression, most countries around the world experienced a rise in unemployment. The rise in unemployment was particularly marked in countries which were reliant on international trade, such as Chile, Australia and Canada (producers of raw materials). Countries which were relatively isolated and self-sufficient often avoided the wor...

    In essence, with demand for goods falling, many firms went out of business and so made their workforce redundant. Other firms had to cut costs so hired fewer workers. The unemployment was nearly all demand-deficient (or cyclical unemployment.) 1. People who lost money on the Wall Street Crash (1929) started to spend less. Banks lost money from loan...

    UK unemployment reached a peak of 23% in 1932. Unlike the US, UK unemployment was high – before the great depression. The UK economy was depressed throughout the 1920s due to the Gold Standard, deflation, industrial decline and tight fiscal policy. Select other countries 1. Germany – an unemployment rate of 30% in 1932 (or five and half million) 2....

  3. 1941. 102,700,000. 57,530,000. 5,560,000. 9.66. Despite the evidence of a national catastrophe, support for Unemployment Relief remained sketchy until FDR introduced the New Deal in 1933.

  4. By 1930 there were 4.3 million unemployed; by 1931, 8 million; and in 1932 the number had risen to 12 million. By early 1933, almost 13 million were out of work and the unemployment rate stood at an astonishing 25 percent.

  5. Oct 29, 2009 · By 1930, 4 million Americans looking for work could not find it; that number had risen to 6 million in 1931. Meanwhile, the country’s industrial production had dropped by half. Bread lines,...

  6. 2 days ago · Graph of U.S. Unemployment Rate, 1930-1945. The unemployment rate rose sharply during the Great Depression and reached its peak at the moment Franklin D. Roosevelt took office. As New Deal programs were enacted, the unemployment rate gradually lowered.

  7. In the United States, union membership more than doubled between 1930 and 1940. This trend was stimulated by both the severe unemployment of the 1930s and the passage of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (1935), which encouraged collective bargaining.

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