AMERICAN LABOR AND ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP by Mark Hendrickson ( 9781107028609 )

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Title:

AMERICAN LABOR AND ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP
NEW CAPITALISM FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION

By:

Mark Hendrickson

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Hardback

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1107028604

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

27 May, 2013

Pages:

332

Description:

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

Synopsis:

Once viewed as a distinct era characterized by intense bigotry, nostalgia for simpler times and a revulsion against active government, the 1920s have been rediscovered by historians in recent decades as a time when Herbert Hoover and his allies worked to significantly reform economic policy. Mark Hendrickson both augments and amends this view by studying the origins and development of New Era policy expertise and knowledge. Policy-oriented social scientists in government, trade union, academic and nonprofit agencies showed how methods for achieving stable economic growth through increased productivity could both defang the dreaded business cycle and defuse the pattern of hostile class relations that Gilded Age depressions had helped to set as an American system of industrial relations.

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3 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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