Momentary Economic thought

[wickedwords]

The thing to remember about the great depression and the 25% of the workforce being unemployed, was that the vast majority of those people were men. Women worked inside the home for the most part, so the work force was a lot different in it's make-up; now they are the backbone of those 'service industry' jobs that Regan was so hot to create. Also the information age jobs that are a part of our current socioeconomic climate weren't a part of the 1930s landscape, and I wonder what the numbers would be like if we excluded those new-and-morphed job categories, so we were judging similar jobs skills in a similar workforce makeup. I think it'd be interesting to try and make it an apples-to-apples comparison.

Comments

[amalthia]

I'd be interested to know this too.