Employment and living standards Flashcards
1
Q
What steps did the Nazis take to reduce unemployment?
A
Conscription into the Labour Service.
Massive rearmament programme.
Women and Jews = the “invisible unemployed”.
2
Q
How did standards of living change for German workers?
A
In general wages got better, but it was better between 1936 and 1939 than 1933 and 1936. If you worked making weapons, then your wages rose quicker than in the Labour Service.
Prices of items went up so if you were a higher earner you ended up with more money, but it was more expensive to buy things.
On average, the working week went up from 43 hours in 1933 to 49 hours in 1939.
