[PDF] Work Relief And Unemployment In The 1930s eBook

Author : Eli Ginzberg
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Charities
ISBN : 9781351302364

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"This classic study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a vivid, startling picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America's relief policies during the Depression years. The study comprises an incisive interpretation of the problem and a series of absorbing human interest stories of representative families on relief?cases selected from experiences of relief, including the records of families from various religious groups in an exhaustive study conducted in New York City. Most research on unemployment of the 1930s conspicuously lacks studies of the unemployed themselves. Yet, this is the crux of the matter?necessary to truly understand the cbnsequences of unemployment then and now, so as to deal with it intelligently and efficiently. This book deals with what employment does to people. It answers important questions about the unemployed that are rarely asked. Who are they? Did they fail to earn a living even in prosperous times? What precipitated their unemployment? Do they prefer relief to work? Did unemployment bring about changes in how they think and feel? This is a volume of continuing relevance, and will be of interest to legislators, economists, social scientists, social workers, and psychologists."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Alexander Leopold Radomski
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Examines new phases during the 1930's of governmental provision for the economically insecure including state grants-in-aid for emergency employment relief and the creation of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

Author : Barry J. Eichengreen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 1988-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789024736966

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High unemployment has been one of the most disturbing features of the economy of the 1980s. For a precedent, one must look to the interwar period and in particular to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It follows that recent years have been marked by a resurgence of interest amongst academics in interwar unemployment. The debate has been contentious. There is nothing like the analysis of a period which recorded rates of un employment approaching 25 per cent to highlight the differences between competing schools of thought on the operation of labour markets. Along with historians, economists whose objective is to better understand the causes, character and consequences of contemporary unemployment and sociologists seeking to understand contemporary society's perceptions and responses to joblessness have devoted increasing attention to this his torical episode. Like many issues in economic history, this one can be approached in a variety of ways using different theoretical approaches, tools of analysis and levels of disaggregation. Much of the recent literature on the func tioning of labour markets in the Depression has been macroeconomic in nature and has been limited to individual countries. Debates from the period itself have been revived and new questions stimulated by modem research have been opened. Many such studies have been narrowly fo cused and have failed to take into account the array of historical evidence collected and anal~sed by contemporaries or reconstructed and re- inter preted by historians.

Author : Abigail Trollinger
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Social reformers
ISBN : 9781439919521

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"Becoming Entitled examines the Depression-era political and intellectual shifts that occurred at the city and state levels and ultimately enabled the passage of unemployment insurance in the United States, and the role played by local reformers and settlement leaders in bringing about these changes"--

Author : James J. Lorence
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1438411251

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Focusing on Michigan during the Great Depression, this book highlights the efforts of community organizers and activists in the United Automobile Workers (UAW) to mobilize the jobless for mass action. In doing so, it demonstrates the relationship between unemployed activism and the rise of industrial unionism. Moreover, by discussing Communist and Socialist initiatives on behalf of displaced workers, the book illuminates the impact of radicalism on social change and shows how political claims influenced the cultural discourse of the 1930s. The book not only helps fill a void in our knowledge of community activism, worker culture, and labor history in the 1930s but also sheds light on the New Deal's domestication of American labor and the channeling of mass protest toward politically and socially acceptable goals. The UAW acceptance of responsibility for the underclass of the 1930s raises pertinent questions for labor in the 1990s.

Author : Jeff Singleton
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
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Singleton examines the origins and implementation of the first federal welfare programs in the early 1930s. Based on his extensive research in the archives of federal welfare agencies, Singleton seeks to link the expansion and federalization of relief with recent efforts to reform "welfare."