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Charles Roper 10/20/08 Block: 2    http://image.superchevy.com/f/chevy-news/the-american-aircraft-factory-in-wwii/9765748+cr1+re0+ar1/the-american-aircraft-factory-during-wwii.jpg  It is now my second week of work in an airplane factory for bomber planes that are going to be used in WWII. It is a lot of hard work but I do not mind it because I had no work at all before this. And I was not the only one that was getting new jobs “With the creation of 17 million new jobs during the war, workers were afforded the opportunity to pay off old debts, as well as begin saving some of their earning.” (Great, page 1)(Great, page 2)Even women started to take advantage of all of the new job opportunities they got jobs like uniforms and some even worked in the factories build airplanes, tanks and etc. “More than 6 million of these new workers were women. At first war industries feared that most women lacked the necessary stamina for factory work and were reluctant to hire them.” (Danzer ,page 565) Women got paid a lot less then the males doing the same work got paid, and even if they were skilled women workers the unskilled men workers would still most likely get paid more. The women did not really mind the low wages because it was the first time that they were actually given the opportunity to work. (Trueman, page 3) The blacks were not as lucky as the women though they still got discriminated in the work place they were considered to only be janitors. Due to this discrimination A. Philip Randolph, president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the nation’s most respected African-American labor leader, lead protest against discrimination in the work place as well as in the military fields. These protest finally hit Washington D.C. and President Roosevelt declared that all labor unions provide an equal work environment for everyone not depending race, creed, color or national origin. (Danzer, page 566) Even with all of the minor setbacks I believe that all of these new job opportunities will help us get out of this horrible depression because my new job all ready helped me to pay off my debts and I know it has for millions of other Americans too.  **__Profile:__** Age:22 Gender: Male Job: Works in an airplane factory    Year: 1942 Born:1920     **__Works Cited __** Danzer, Wilson, Woloch “Mobiliing for defense” __The Americans__ USA: Rand McNally and Company, 2003.  “Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945” __The Learning Page__. 09/26/2002. 10/20/08 <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/wwarii/wwarii.html> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Trueman, Chris.”Women in World War Two” __History Learning.__ 10/20/08 < <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/women_WW2.htm> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">