People Must Live by Work : : Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan / / Steven Attewell.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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