
American Labor and Economic Citizenship
New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression
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American Labor and Economic Citizenship
New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- American Labor and Economic Citizenship
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 āHooveringā in the Twenties
- 2 Wages and the Public Interest
- 3 Enlightened Labor?
- 4 A New Capitalism?
- 5 Gender Research as Labor Activism
- 6 The New āNegro Problemā
- 7 Promising Problems
- Conclusion
- Archival Sources and Abbreviations
- Index