Answer:
(i) The economic crisis created deep
anxieties and fears in people.
(ii)
The middle classes, especially salaried employees and pensioners, saw their
savings diminish when the currency lost its value.
(iii)
Small businessmen, the self-employed and retailers suffered as their businesses
got ruined.
(iv)
These sections ofsociety were filled with the fear of'Proletarianisation', an
anxiety of being reduced to the ranks of the working class, or worse still, the
unemployed.
(v)
Only organised workers could manage to keep their heads above water, but
unemployment weakened their bargaining power.
(vi)
Big business was in crisis.
(vii)
The large mass of peasantry was affected by a sharp fall in agricultural prices
and women, unable to fill their children's stomachs, were filled with a sense
of deep despair.
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