page_title: Cities in the Great Depression
section_title: Chile
hierarchical_section_title: Cities in the Great Depression / Chile
caption_attribution_description: Español: Ollas comunes para alimentar cesantes, 1932.Zig-Zag. Santiago&#160;: Zig-Zag, 1905-1964. 59 v., n° 1428, (2 jul. 1932), p. 30 English: Community soup kitchens to feed the unemployed, 1932.
context_page_description: Throughout the industrial world, cities were hit hard during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929 and lasting through most of the 1930s. Worst hit were port cities and cities that depended on heavy industry, such as steel and automobiles. Service-oriented cities were hurt less severely. Political centers such as Canada, Texas, Washington, London and Berlin flourished during the Great Depression, as the expanded role of government added many new jobs.
context_section_description: As saltpetre and copper exports collapsed levels of unemployment rose dramatically causing a migration of unemployed saltpetre miners from the north to Santiago. Miners constituted around 6% of the active population but made up more than half of the unemployed during the crisis. Numerous soup kitchens sprang up in Santiago while homeless people begun to dwell in caves in the hills around this city.
caption: Soup kitchen in Santiago to feed the unemployed in 1932.
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