USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Taken collectively, rates per hour in 1920 were 29 per cent higher than in 1919, 99 per cent higher than in 1913; 111 per cent higher than in 1910; and 122 per cent higher than in 1907. Each of the trades and occupations herein reported received an average increase in weekly rates in 1920 as compared with 1919.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jazz music became wildly popular in the “Roaring Twenties, ” a decade that witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity in the United States. Consumer culture flourished, with ever greater numbers of Americans purchasing automobiles, electrical appliances, and other widely available consumer products.

Detailed explanation-3: -Labor unions were declining as firms promoted company unions and provided increased benefits to workers under what was known as “welfare capitalism.” Strikes had declined after the post-World War I strike wave.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the 1920s, many of labor’s gains during World War I and the Progressive era were rolled back. Membership in labor unions fell from 5 million to 3 million. The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed picketing, overturned national child labor laws, and abolished minimum wage laws for women.