1943-1945: (The Wartime Economic Boom That Did Not Trickle Down: While the Merchant Elite Factory Owners and Large Import and Export Businesses Experienced a…

1943-1945: (The Wartime Economic Boom That Did Not Trickle Down: While the Merchant Elite Factory Owners and Large Import and Export Businesses Experienced an Economic Boom During World War II These Resources Only Trickled Down to Most Workers as the Local Markets Continued to Extract Labor from the Growing Working Class and the Peasant Majority. In This Scenario Haitian Women Were Being Depleted): While the merchant oligarchy (factory owners and large import and export businesses) experienced an economic boom during World War II, these resources only trickled down to most workers as the local markets continued to extract labor from the growing working class and the peasant majority. In this scenario, Haitian women were being depleted. The word depleted was precise: emptied out, their labor, their health, their capacity for sustenance drawn down like a resource that no one intended to replenish.