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The great depression of the 1930s: lessons for today
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"Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis. This edited collection provides an authoritative introduction to the Great Depression as it affected the advanced countries in the 1930s. The contributions are by acknowledged exper…
The Great Depression of the 1930s: lessons for today
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This text brings together contributions written by internationally distinguished economic historians. The editors explore the current fascination with the 1930s Great Depression and link it with the Great Recession which began in 2007 and still poses a threat to economic stabili…
Powell argues that Roosevelt's New Deal actually hampered the recovery of the American economy, prolonged and added to unemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costly government.
A study of the Great Depression argues that Roosevelt's flawed economic policies had a profound and dangerous impact on America and that the New Deal actually prolonged the hardship rather than provided a lasting solution.
Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s, yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? 'Rights Delayed' argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions: the New Deal state's focus on legal…
Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s, yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? 'Rights Delayed' argues that anti-communism and Congressional conservatism merely intensified the main reason for the decline of progressive unions: the New Deal state's focus on legal…
"Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet by 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anticommunism and southern conservatives in Congress as the forces that diminished th…
History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.
History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.
"In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention…
"In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention…
