Author: Udo Sautter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book demonstrates that the unemployment measures of the New Deal emanated from the reformist endeavors of the Progressive Age.
Three Cheers for the Unemployed
Author: Udo Sautter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book demonstrates that the unemployment measures of the New Deal emanated from the reformist endeavors of the Progressive Age.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book demonstrates that the unemployment measures of the New Deal emanated from the reformist endeavors of the Progressive Age.
Three Cheers for Nothing
Author: Peter Kinsley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A sophisticated comedy concerning an unemployed raffish man, living in a London museum, who is cut in on a plot to steal the Crown Jewels.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A sophisticated comedy concerning an unemployed raffish man, living in a London museum, who is cut in on a plot to steal the Crown Jewels.
Now Give Three Cheers
Unemployment
Author: American Association for Labor Legislation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
American Unemployment
Author: Frank Stricker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205203X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The history of unemployment and concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths to set the record straight: Workers do not normally choose to be unemployed. In our current system, persistent unemployment is not an aberration. It is much more common than full employment, and the outcome of elite policy choices. Labor surpluses propped up by flawed unemployment numbers have helped to keep real wages stagnant for more than forty years. Prior to the New Deal and the era of big government, laissez-faire policies repeatedly led to depressions with heavy, even catastrophic, job losses. Undercounting the unemployed sabotages the creation of government job programs that can lead to more high-paying jobs and full employment. Written for non-economists, American Unemployment is a history and primer on vital economic topics that also provides a roadmap to better jobs and economic security.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205203X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The history of unemployment and concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths to set the record straight: Workers do not normally choose to be unemployed. In our current system, persistent unemployment is not an aberration. It is much more common than full employment, and the outcome of elite policy choices. Labor surpluses propped up by flawed unemployment numbers have helped to keep real wages stagnant for more than forty years. Prior to the New Deal and the era of big government, laissez-faire policies repeatedly led to depressions with heavy, even catastrophic, job losses. Undercounting the unemployed sabotages the creation of government job programs that can lead to more high-paying jobs and full employment. Written for non-economists, American Unemployment is a history and primer on vital economic topics that also provides a roadmap to better jobs and economic security.
Scott, Foresman Reading
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780673749543
Category : Readers (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780673749543
Category : Readers (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Actively Seeking Work?
Author: Desmond King
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226436225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Integrating archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programmes, this work examines the reasons behind the lack of effective training and work programmes for the unemployed in Great Britain and the United States.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226436225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Integrating archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programmes, this work examines the reasons behind the lack of effective training and work programmes for the unemployed in Great Britain and the United States.
Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs
Author: Jerry Prout
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609091973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused millions of Americans to be without work at the time, the word unemployment was rarely used and generally misunderstood. In an era that worshipped the self-reliant individual who triumphed in a laissez-faire market, the out-of-work "tramp" was disparaged as weak or flawed, and undeserving of assistance. Private charities were unable to meet the needs of the jobless, and only a few communities experimented with public works programs. Despite these limitations, Coxey conceived a plan to put millions back to work building a nationwide system of roads and drew attention to his idea with the march to Washington. In Coxey's Crusade for Jobs, Jerry Prout recounts Coxey's story and adds depth and context by focusing on the reporters who were embedded in the march. Their fascinating depictions of life on the road occupied the headlines and front pages of America's newspapers for more than a month, turning the spectacle into a serialized drama. These accounts humanized the idea of unemployment and helped Americans realize that in a new industrial economy, unemployment was not going away and the unemployed deserved attention. This unique study will appeal to scholars and students interested in the Gilded Age and US and labor history.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609091973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused millions of Americans to be without work at the time, the word unemployment was rarely used and generally misunderstood. In an era that worshipped the self-reliant individual who triumphed in a laissez-faire market, the out-of-work "tramp" was disparaged as weak or flawed, and undeserving of assistance. Private charities were unable to meet the needs of the jobless, and only a few communities experimented with public works programs. Despite these limitations, Coxey conceived a plan to put millions back to work building a nationwide system of roads and drew attention to his idea with the march to Washington. In Coxey's Crusade for Jobs, Jerry Prout recounts Coxey's story and adds depth and context by focusing on the reporters who were embedded in the march. Their fascinating depictions of life on the road occupied the headlines and front pages of America's newspapers for more than a month, turning the spectacle into a serialized drama. These accounts humanized the idea of unemployment and helped Americans realize that in a new industrial economy, unemployment was not going away and the unemployed deserved attention. This unique study will appeal to scholars and students interested in the Gilded Age and US and labor history.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Author: Roger Daniels
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 presents FDR from a privileged Hyde Park childhood through his leadership in the Great Depression to the ominous buildup to global war. Roger Daniels revisits the sources and closely examines Roosevelt's own words and deeds to create a twenty-first century analysis of how Roosevelt forged the modern presidency. Daniels's close analysis yields new insights into the expansion of Roosevelt's economic views; FDR's steady mastery of the complexities of federal administrative practices and possibilities; the ways the press and presidential handlers treated questions surrounding his health; and his genius for channeling the lessons learned from an unprecedented collection of scholars and experts into bold political action. Revelatory and nuanced, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 reappraises the rise of a political titan and his impact on the country he remade.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 presents FDR from a privileged Hyde Park childhood through his leadership in the Great Depression to the ominous buildup to global war. Roger Daniels revisits the sources and closely examines Roosevelt's own words and deeds to create a twenty-first century analysis of how Roosevelt forged the modern presidency. Daniels's close analysis yields new insights into the expansion of Roosevelt's economic views; FDR's steady mastery of the complexities of federal administrative practices and possibilities; the ways the press and presidential handlers treated questions surrounding his health; and his genius for channeling the lessons learned from an unprecedented collection of scholars and experts into bold political action. Revelatory and nuanced, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 reappraises the rise of a political titan and his impact on the country he remade.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description