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Popular jobs in 1950s
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Job Outlook Project: 1950s
By: Boyoung Kim, Soomin Lee, Zoe Pienkoski
minimum wage
- 75 Cents
- in 1956 it was raised to 1 dollar
- 30 dollars for an average work week
- $1560 a year
- avaerage of all industry- $3180/year
- state and local government workers- $2758/year
- public school teacher- $2794/year
- medical- $2067/year
Working environment
Popular Jobs
- secretary (Women)
- Milk Man (Men)
- Gas station attendant (Men)
- plumber (Men)
- bus driver (Men)
- In 1952, 8.7million people worked in manufacturing
- in 1952, just four per cent of people worked part-time. Today, the number has ballooned to one in four workers
- On average, workers did a 48-hour week in 1952. Today, a typical worker with a full-time job does only 37 hours
- Around one in two women of working age had a job
- 96% of men were working in the 1950s
- the number of people claiming unemployment benefits has ballooned from around 350,000 to nearly 1.6million today.
other changes
New labor laws and regulations
- in the 19050s there was sexism so the professional jobs were still largely closed off to women
- even though women had a job they only earned 60% of what men did
- generally men worked while women raised the kids at home
January 21st 1953 secretary of labor, Maurice Tobin, supports the fair employment practices bill which prohibits discrimination based on race religion or national origin. under Tobin the department staff and budget are fortified and government labor functions are consolidated
- Works cited
- www.ehow.com/info_8482457_were_common_jobs_1950s.html
- www.dol.gov
- http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2094769/Workers-1950s-worked-longer-hours-tougher-conditions-holiday--happier-now.html
- www.debate.org/opinions/were-the-19050s-the-best-time-to-live
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/image_galleries/bilston_trades_gallery.shtml
- http://www.usa.usembassy.de/etexts/his/e_prices1.htm
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