The Civil Works Administration, 1933-1934 : : The Business of Emergency Employment in the New Deal / / Bonnie Fox Schwartz.

Bonnie Fox Schwartz examines the New Deal's Civil Works Administration, the first federal job-creation program for the unemployed. Challenging assumptions that social workers and other urban liberals dominated New Deal relief agencies, she describes the role of engineers and industrial managers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 589
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acronyms
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter One. Origins of Civil Works: Unorthodox Social Work And Progressive Engineering In
  • Chapter Two. The Civil Works Organization: From Social Welfare to Social Engineering and Management
  • Chapter Three. The Cwa in The States: Social Workers and Corporate Liberals Vs. The Bosses
  • Chapter Four. Civil Works arid the AFL
  • Chapter Five. Civil Works for the White Collar and Professional
  • Chapter Six. Civil Works for the "Forgotten Woman"
  • Chapter Seven. The Four Million: From Relief Clients to Work Force
  • Chapter Eight. Demobilization
  • Chapter Nine. Reconversion to Work Relief: The FERA Work Division and the WPA
  • Epilogue: From CWA To CETA
  • A Note on Sources
  • Index