Economic Stability in Indonesia & the US

In the period between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I, the United States witnessed profound changes: the country was internally bleeding following the war; many of the changes regarding blacks never materialized. The employers in the capitalist system employed workers at slave wages in extremely dangerous working conditions; the increased efficiency arising out of new technology was creating a new strata of worker, the skilled worker; labor began to organize; and socialist thought flourished in this milieu of death and despair. The average person was asking, "What will I have to do to survive?"

The most significant developments in this period were Darwinism, technological development and Soci

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ically have created business's most pleasant surprises (Brody, 1987, p. 22). The United States will create more than 13 million jobs during the 1990s with nine out of 10 in service industries and eight out of 10 filled by women, minorities and immigrants (Brody, 1987, p. 22). One factor that bodes well for America's economic future is that this is the first time in its history that more than half of the entire population is in the workforce without having to support more numbers of young or old citizens. Workers are so great that, by the end of the century, the bulge of the middle-age workers is expected to create a temporary surplus in the often strained Social Security system. The strength of the economy will make arguments that the American middle class is dividing into a prosperous professional and managerial elite and a poor service-industry populace mute. Dire predictions such as this one are rooted not just in the economic turmoil of the 1970s, but the upsurge in smaller households caused by divorce and single baby-boomers. Married couples with children managed gains in real income of 15 percent from 1970 through 1985. College-educated black married couples have been closing the gap with whites; they now earn 82.4 pe
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