Daddy s Gone to War Home Life during the WW2 I Introduction A Little Test Helped people realize their place in life career wise II World War II and Economic Recovery 1 GNP doubles during the war Factories are running full time 24 7 Mega factories are created Factory worker job pays well get as much work as you want work is plentiful Income of bottom 20 increase 68 WWII features highest number of people in unions 2 Good working conditions wages union membership high African Americans and War Mobilization III Opportunity to get out of the south escape sharecropping Jim Crow laws etc 1 700 000 move north to get work in factories during the war Chicago Detroit Philadelphia 2 They find segregation and racism there too a Detroit race riot 1943 small fight between white and black lasting for days 23 blacks and 9 whites killed 3 Employment discrimination Shut down from certain jobs completely don t have management jobs available for blacks paid less some factories are segregated without any safety equipment a Philadelphia Transit strike 1944 8 black men promoted to street car drivers white workers all walk out putting the whole town in despair 4 Some Progress a The Federal Employment Practices Committee banned racial discrimination in federal or defense government employment however laws without 1 enforcement are pointless law was made but wasn t followed through b Black self empowerment unions newspapers etc IV Women and Mobilization gender conflicts Mothers have to take on a double role since fathers are out at war Women don t work much in the factories but rather take on clerical work paperwork Women still did however work in factories 20 of workforce by the end of the war are women a lot of them black women Government encourages this but don t turn women into men gender confusion Images celebrating feminism Men wouldn t too happy about this unions will not go to bat for their female members no support legally had to pay men and women the same pay but they found ways around it 1 Pink Collar Jobs 2 Industrial jobs increasing 3 Government support reflects traditional views of women 4 Gender discrimination at the factory 5 Latchkey Kids and delinquency 6 Despite all this working is a liberating experience for many women V Japanese Americans and Racial Hysteria Kicks off with the Chinese Exclusion act immigration from Asian countries is banned particularly on the west coast due to pearl harbor making Americans extremely upset Declared Japanese race as an enemy race 1 March 1942 Relocation begins rounding up 100000 Japanese Americans and put them into camps all over the 2 west and Arkansas not a holocaust people aren t being killed or worked to death 2 Civil Rights violations loss of homes businesses assets dignity given 3 days from the time government tells you to relocate to do sell houses business resulting in significant financial loss In turn government takes your land house and sells it making all the profit 3 Supreme Court assents i ii Hirabayashi vs United States 1943 Korematsu vs United States 1944 4 Irony the glory of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team 1982 making up for financial losses Need for man power increase and government use them in the war not against the japenese Spys broke into Japanese embassy discovering that Japanese government had dismissed the japenese Americans as traighters 3
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