MASS+PRODUCTION

=MASS PRODUCTION Author: Alexandria C.= == The Roaring Twenties actually began with an economic whimper; the transition back to peacetime after World War I was a difficult adjustment. Labor unions, which had grown strong during the war, fought to maintain their power through a series of strikes in 1919. The largest strikes—a General Strike of all workers in Seattle, and a strike of the entire American steel industry—affected hundreds of thousands of workers and consumers, and the radical rhetoric used by some workers' leaders seemed to raise the prospect of full-fledged class warfare. Coming just two years after a successful Communist revolution in Russia, the militancy of the 1919 strike wave proved deeply alarming to most Americans; employers held firm against workers' demands, and most of the big strikes, including the strikes of Seattle and big steel, collapsed when workers returned to work under heavy threat of violence. "wikipedia." //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_production//. the world, Web. 7 Mar 2010. "shmoop." //http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/economy.html//. Web. 7 Mar 2010. "u-s-history." //http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html//. Web. 7 Mar 2010.