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Nancy E. Rose

Put to Work: The Wpa and Public Employment in the Great Depression

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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 then—in the 1930s—the 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,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-58367-206-8
  • EAN: 9781583672068
  • Produktnummer: 4908764
  • Verlag: Monthly Review Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 136 S.
  • Masse: H21.3 cm x B16.7 cm x D0.9 cm 163 g
  • Gewicht: 163

Über den Autor


Nancy E. Rose se is professor and chair of economics at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs, as well as articles about government welfare and work program policy and history. Her recent work has focused on radicalpedagogy and on families with lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents.

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