What effect did the wartime labor shortage have on unions women african americans and mexican americans?
Obviously, with millions of men off fighting the war in Europe and the Pacific, and a war machine that needed people building planes, tanks, guns, etc — you had to have someone fill in. Therefore, women and African-Americans went to work in the factories. Mexican-Americans came to the United States to pick up the slack in the agricultural sector – see Bracero program. Rosie the Riveter Memorial http://www.rosietheriveter.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_R… Bracero Program http://www.farmworkers.org/bracerop.html http://americanhistory.si.
