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The American economy took a sharp downturn in mid-1937, lasting for 13 months through most of 1938. Industrial production declined almost 30 percent, and production of durable goods fell even faster. Unemployment jumped from 14.3% in May 1937 to 19.0% in June 1938. [1] Manufacturing output fell by 37% from the 1937 peak and was back to 1934 ...
Following a moderate downturn, industrial production grew slowly but steadily between 2003 and 2007. The sector, however, averaged less than 1% growth annually from 2000 to 2007; from early 2008, moreover, industrial production again declined, and by June 2009, had fallen by over 15%, the sharpest decline since the Great Depression. Since then ...
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Rowthorn [11] argues that Marx's theory of declining (industrial) profit may be regarded as one of the earliest explanations of deindustrialization. This theory argues that technological innovation enables more efficient means of production, resulting in increased physical productivity, i.e., a greater output of use value per unit of capital ...
The UAW's strike has punctuated a year of labor unrest in a moment that hearkens to 1937 when workers emulated the autoworkers' sit-down strikes. Flashback: In 1937, Detroit workers kicked out ...
"Between 1936–1937, the Tela Railroad Company banana output fell from 5.8 to 3.7 million bunches" and this did not include independent farmers who also suffered from the same epidemics, "export figures confirm the devastating effect of the pathogen on non-company growers: between 1937-1939 their exports plummeted from 1.7 million bunches to a ...
In the 29 years that Joe Gray has worked flotillas of barges up and down the Ohio River, he has witnessed the decline at the heart of industrial America.
This is a list of the individual Florida year pages. In 1845, the United States admitted the Florida as the 27th U.S. state , establishing the State of Florida. [ 1 ]