“First class New York stenographers’ salaries fell from $35 and $45 a week to $16; domestic servants were obliged to labor for room and board plus $10 a month… Makers of ready-to-wear dresses, confectionery employees and cannery workers were among the classes exploited most callously.”
Yet, regardless of the degradation of the Great Depression, the United States was still an enormously wealthy nation…
When W.W. II began and the factories reopened, the reality of having money and full-time employment made so many people giddy with excitement it proved to be too much for them – click here to read about that…
