Pocketbook Politics : : Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America / / Meg Jacobs.
"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreakin...
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Jacobs, Meg, author. Pocketbook Politics : Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America / Meg Jacobs. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2007] ©2004 1 online resource : 20 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Society in Modern America ; 46 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century -- PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930 -- Chapter One. From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917 -- Chapter Two Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930 -- PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE, 1930-1940 -- Chapter Three. The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935 -- Chapter Four. The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 -- PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960 -- Chapter Five. The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 -- Chapter Six. Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960 -- Epilogue. Back to Bargain Hunting -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them. This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the American Dream of abundance. Issued also in print. 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 08. Jul 2019) Consumption (Economics) United States History 20th century. Income distribution United States History 20th century. Purchasing power United States History 20th century. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691130415 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843787 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400843787.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century -- PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930 -- Chapter One. From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917 -- Chapter Two Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930 -- PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE, 1930-1940 -- Chapter Three. The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935 -- Chapter Four. The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 -- PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960 -- Chapter Five. The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 -- Chapter Six. Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960 -- Epilogue. Back to Bargain Hunting -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century -- PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930 -- Chapter One. From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917 -- Chapter Two Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930 -- PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE, 1930-1940 -- Chapter Three. The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935 -- Chapter Four. The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 -- PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960 -- Chapter Five. The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 -- Chapter Six. Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960 -- Epilogue. Back to Bargain Hunting -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter |
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