The Industrial Revolution promoted new technologies in production that replaced human labor. Together with this, the industrial mode of production is developing, more and more factories with large plants are growing. The need for workers is high, so migration of population from village to city is recorded, more and more labor is in search of a job that can bring a stable income. This creates a large number of workforce, even more than needed, so workers are willing to do anything, even for a lower hourly rate. Employers have the opportunity to reduce the hourly rate due to over-labor supply, and so they can pay less for women and children under unequal treatment between men and women, especially children. People are fundamentally blackmailed to work for a low hourly rate because there was always workforce available. The conclusion is that, in the conditions of industrial production, only employers could earn more on the basis of the use of excess worker value, while workers earned less on behalf of employers' profits.
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B) They developed programs that lessened suffering but did not solve all the problems.</h2><h2>
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The Great Depression was the inferior economic disaster in U.S. history. From 1931 to 1940 unemployment was always in double digits. In April 1939, almost ten years after the disaster occurred, more than one in five Americans still could not find a job. On the surface, World War II appears to mark the end of the Great Depression.
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<h2>B) The sense f loss of purpose of the postwar generation of writers</h2><h2 /><h3>Explanation:</h3><h3 />
The young adults of Europe and America during World War I. They were lost because after the war many of them were disappointed with the world in usual and reluctant to move into an improved life. A society of American writers who came of age during World War I and built their literary fame in the 1920s.
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<h2>C) Flappers symbolized a postwar rejection of traditional values and attitudes.</h2><h2 /><h3>Explanation:</h3><h3 />
Started in the 1920s, the word flapper represented women who flamboyantly mocked their hatred for what was back then considered as social behavior that was expected. Flappers were women who were distinguished by their choice of trimmed hair, short skirts, and their satisfaction with jazz music. The look became popular because of the lifestyle.
That person would be Jacob Riis.
