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Can you provide your evidence for what happened to them? I'm making an educated guess, it's your turn.
The car became the center of Middle Class Life in the Early 1920s. There was a Depression in 1920-1921, in which unemployment jumped from 4 to 12%. President Harding cut the size of the government almost in half over two years, slashed tax rates, paid off some of the national debt, and unemployment was down to 2.4% by 1923.
Looks like those workers were pretty quickly re-integrated into the work force in new professions. Given the lack of a life-long safety net, that's not terribly surprising.
Their children probably grew up fine, well, if they didn't get shoved into a factory to scrape by.
I thought factories were what made America great, and it was a shame that we were shipping them overseas. ?
Their children went into different industries as well. There is not a permanent underclass of unemployed in our society due to the invention of the automobile, any more than there is due to the invention of the tractor (90% of our populace used to work in agriculture. Now about 2% do), any more than there will be due to the introduction of the robot.*
*So long, of course, as we don't muck it up with ill-considered government programs designed to "fix the problem".