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Why Did Nearly 5 Million Workers Walk Off Their Jobs

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Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946?


A) Returning veterans had been given preferential treatment in hiring and promotion.
B) The millions of women who had worked in defense industries were refusing to leave their jobs.
C) The postwar wave of deflation was dramatically reducing the value of workers' wages.
D) The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers' real income.
E) American workers had accumulated months of vacation and overtime during the war years.

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