> “Historically, men have been more likely to drop out of school to work in hot economies, whether it’s in the factories of World War II or the fracking mines of the Dakotas,”
In WWII were men really dropping out of school to work in factories or were they dropping out to join the military? I thought that American factories during WWII were largely staffed by women and men who weren’t eligible to fight.
Also, I don’t think that guy knows what fracking is.
We only drafted a small portion of the working age, male population compared to other countries. The vast majority of working-age men were still in the workforce. Less than 1/5th of those registered were conscripted, the target rate of the War Manpower Commission.
Furthermore Executive Order 9279 closed voluntary enlistment for working age men aged 18-38 to prevent factory labor shortages:
>After the effective date of this Order no male person who has attained the eighteenth anniversary and has not attained the thirty-eighth anniversary of the day of his birth shall be inducted into the enlisted personnel of the armed forces
In WWII were men really dropping out of school to work in factories or were they dropping out to join the military? I thought that American factories during WWII were largely staffed by women and men who weren’t eligible to fight.
Also, I don’t think that guy knows what fracking is.