American Labor and Economic Citizenship

New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av Mark Hendrickson, San Diego) Hendrickson, Mark (University of California

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-06-18
Mått151 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107559677

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Introduction; 1. 'Hoovering' in the twenties: efficiency, wages, and growth in the 'new economic system'; 2. Wages and the public interest: economists and the wage questions in the new era; 3. Enlightened labor? Labor's share and economic stability; 4. A new capitalism? Interrogating employers' efforts to cultivate a 'feeling of partnership' in industry; 5. Gender research as labor activism: the women's bureau in the new era; 6. The new 'Negro problem'; 7. Promising problems: working toward a reconstructed understanding of the African American and Mexican worker; Conclusion.

'Mark Hendrickson has crafted an important narrative that explains how early twentieth-century American business leaders, social scientists, and political activists worked to regulate, stabilize, and strengthen a newly configured national economy. He demonstrates how their efforts were ironically paralleled by the emerging resistance of marginalized and underrepresented groups (women, African Americans, and Mexican Americans) to the worst excesses of an economic system that, while possessed of many virtues, also subsisted on inequality and injustice.' Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University, Louisiana