After WWI the United States suffered an unprecedented transformation. Economically and socially speaking, the nation reached levels never ever achieved. During the 1920s the nation’s total wealth almost doubled and workers enjoyed a 26 percent increase in income.
However, this economical growth, resulted from a highly deregulation of the market allowed the overproduction of consumer goods and industrial products. Still, the population's consumption capacity did not absorb this growth, generating large inventories of products. With the decrease in consumption, the productive sector began to invest and produce less, offsetting its deficits with the dismissal of employees.
