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In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea—direct job creation—that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct j...
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Attewell, Steven, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut People Must Live by Work : Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan / Steven Attewell. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (336 p.) : 12 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Culture in Modern America Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Prehistory of an Idea -- Chapter 1. First Objective of Reform: Direct Job Creation in the Committee of Economic Security and the Designing of the New Deal -- Chapter 2. People or Projects: The Works Progress Administration Versus the Public Works Administration Reconsidered as Economic Theory and Ideology -- Chapter 3. “One Third of a Nation”: WPA Direct Job Creation Reconsidered as a Policy Success -- Chapter 4. Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment -- Chapter 5. Jobs and Freedom: The Missing Front in the War on Poverty -- Chapter 6. The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act: The High-Water Mark for Direct Job Creation in “the New Deal That Never Happened” -- Conclusion. Jobs and the Policy Imagination -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea—direct job creation—that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct job creation was put into practice, employing more than eight million Americans and making the federal government the largest single employer in the country. Yet in 2008, when the most dramatic economic crisis since the Depression occurred, the idea of direct job creation was nowhere to be found on the list of policies deemed feasible or advisable for government at any level.People Must Live by Work traces the rise and fall of direct job creation policy—how it was put into practice, how it came within a hairbreadth of becoming a permanent feature of American economic and social administration, and why it has been largely forgotten or discounted today. Contrary to more conventional arguments, Attewell reveals that the New Deal ended the Great Depression before the United States entered World War II and its jobs programs continued to influence policy debates over the Employment Act of 1946. He examines the deliberations surrounding the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act that was signed into law in 1978 and demonstrates the ways in which direct job creation played a significant and polarizing role in dividing the economic establishment and the Democratic party in the 1970s. People Must Live by Work not only chronicles the ambition, constraints, and achievements of direct job creation policy in the past but also proposes a framework for understanding its enduring significance and promise for today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) Full employment policies United States History 20th century. Job creation Government policy United States History 20th century. Job creation Government policy United States History 20thcentury. Job creation United States History 20th century. Public service employment United States History 20th century. History-United States. Political Science/Public Policy. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh American History. American Studies. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 English 9783110604030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 9783110603149 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295313 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295313 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812295313/original |
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Attewell, Steven, Attewell, Steven, People Must Live by Work : Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan / Politics and Culture in Modern America Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Prehistory of an Idea -- Chapter 1. First Objective of Reform: Direct Job Creation in the Committee of Economic Security and the Designing of the New Deal -- Chapter 2. People or Projects: The Works Progress Administration Versus the Public Works Administration Reconsidered as Economic Theory and Ideology -- Chapter 3. “One Third of a Nation”: WPA Direct Job Creation Reconsidered as a Policy Success -- Chapter 4. Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment -- Chapter 5. Jobs and Freedom: The Missing Front in the War on Poverty -- Chapter 6. The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act: The High-Water Mark for Direct Job Creation in “the New Deal That Never Happened” -- Conclusion. Jobs and the Policy Imagination -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Prehistory of an Idea -- Chapter 1. First Objective of Reform: Direct Job Creation in the Committee of Economic Security and the Designing of the New Deal -- Chapter 2. People or Projects: The Works Progress Administration Versus the Public Works Administration Reconsidered as Economic Theory and Ideology -- Chapter 3. “One Third of a Nation”: WPA Direct Job Creation Reconsidered as a Policy Success -- Chapter 4. Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment -- Chapter 5. Jobs and Freedom: The Missing Front in the War on Poverty -- Chapter 6. The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act: The High-Water Mark for Direct Job Creation in “the New Deal That Never Happened” -- Conclusion. Jobs and the Policy Imagination -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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