Put to Work

Nancy E Rose

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Monthly Review Press Okt 2009, 2009

1583672060 / 9781583672068

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Neuware - With unemployment surging to record levels and the economy in freefall, experts are looking to the Great Depression for lessonsin stimulating job creation. Then, as now, the system was unableto provide the jobs and financial support desperately needed by millions of people. But thenin the 1930sthe state intervened to create massive employment programs that put people to work on socially useful projects in states, cities, and towns across the country. The scope of these programs was unprecedented and never repeated in the decades that followed. Today, as the severity of the economic crisis increasingly resembles that of the Great Depression, the time for a reappraisal of the New Deal employment programs has never been more necessary.Put To Work tells the story of the massive government job-creation programs of the 1930snot only the Works Progress Administration (WPA), but also the lesser known Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and Civil Works Administration (CWA), which set the framework for the ideological and policy battles that followed. Nancy E. Rose details the development of these programs, the pressures that surrounded them, and the resulting constraints. She analyzes both their unique contributions and their shortcomings, especially in their treatment of women and African-Americans. In the process, she carefully reevaluates the charges that these were inefficient 'make-work' programs, or 'boondoggles,' charges that continue to characterize job-creation programs to this day.In her new introduction, Rose places the Obama administration's economic stimulus package in historical perspective as part of this tradition of government job creation programs. In her new conclusion, she explores lessons from the New Deal work programs for the current era. …

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Titolo
Put to Work
Autore
Nancy E Rose
Editore
Monthly Review Press Okt 2009
Anno di pubblicazione
2009
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1583672060
ISBN 13
9781583672068
Edizione
seconda edizione
Peso dell'articolo
163 grammi
Dimensioni
213x167x9 mm

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