Reading Comprehension (RC) | Historian Annelise Orleck points out most scholars neglect of an

[align=justify][box_out][box_in] Historian Annelise Orleck points out most scholars’ neglect of an important Depression-era (1929-1939) phenomenon in the United States: activism by working-class homemakers who lobbied for food and rent price controls, staged anti-eviction demonstrations and food boycotts, and created large-scale barter networks. Orleck’s research on homemakers' groups acknowledges regional differences in their political styles, but emphasizes a significant commonality: a strong labor- movement affiliation. Male unionists’ wage victories during the 1910s had improved working-class families’ standard of living, but spiraling inflation and the near-destruction of many unions during the 1920s sharply eroded these gains. Depression-era homemakers' militance was sparked by this steep decline in working-class families’ standard of living. It was also rooted in female organizers’ own union experiences. In areas where homemakers' organizations flourished, usually union strongholds,
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