The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes .
the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families .
of America during the 1930's lived under. The novel tells of a .
family known as the Joads migration west to california through the .
great economic depression of the 1930's. the Joad family had to .
abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and .
set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their .
farms. The bank took possessions of their land because the owners .
could not pay off their loan. One of the biggest problems faced .
is the fact that the great depression is in its prime. After .
reading this novel I was able to tell that the great depression is .
the main cause and sound basis for the novel.
The government started playing a major role in agriculture .
during and after the Great Depression of the 1930's. It acted .
primarily to restrict output in order to keep prices high. The .
growth of agricultural productivity depended on the accompanying .
industrial revolution that freedom stimulated. So then came new .
machines that revolutionized agriculture. Conversely, the .
industrial revolution depended on the availability of the manpower .
released by the agricultural revolution.
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One could say that the depression that started was like a .
catastrophe of unprecedented dimension for the United States. The .
nations dollar income was cut in half before the economy hit .
bottom in the 1933. The total output fell by a third, and .
unemployment reached 25 percent of the work force. The .
depression was something that hit other countries, and it brought .
lower output, higher unemployment, hunger and misery everywhere. .
Today we have jobs that are disappearing for good. Some are .
the result of normal changing of the economic cycle, but most .
recently it has been the jobs of higher paid, skilled, white .
collar workers and managers, many who work for larger .
