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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2007] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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