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Author : Mary Ann Labutta
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1419630326
Middle Class Life During the Great Depression ambles down the lane documenting the facts of life in the rural areas of Southwestern Pennsylvania in the 1930's and 40's.
Author : Catherine McNicol Stock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807864838
Author : Catherine McNicol Stock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807846899
This study of class during the Great Depression is the first to examine a relatively neglected geographical area, the northern plains states of North and South Dakota, from a social and cultural perspective. Surveying the values and ideals of the old midd
Author : Jennifer Haytock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137347206
In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project analyzes popular representations of middle class life.
Author : Mary C. McComb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135526870
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using expert-penned advice and business ideology to make sense of their situation.
Author : Felix Muskett Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Depressions
ISBN : UIUC:30112049647263
Author : Doris Goran Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0982975821
Growing up in the Depression, a young girl lives in Yonkers, New York, in the 1930s. Her family tries to maintain a middle-class lifestyle when they can barely afford their basic needs. Her father goes bankrupt. Dotsy, an artistic child, feels the stress. Her only hope comes from the radio, hearing the inspiring voice of President Roosevelt. This is the untold story of the vast American middle class in the Great Depression.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618446303
Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.
Author : Lara A. Campbell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442697041
High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s. Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.
Author : Ganesh Sitaraman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781101973455
In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable—and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America’s republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic? The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our constitutional system.
Author : Robert S. McElvaine
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898819
Down and Out in the Great Depression is a moving, revealing collection of letters by the forgotten men, women, and children who suffered through one of the greatest periods of hardship in American history. Sifting through some 15,000 letters from government and private sources, Robert McElvaine has culled nearly 200 communications that best show the problems, thoughts, and emotions of ordinary people during this time. Unlike views of Depression life "from the bottom up" that rely on recollections recorded several decades later, this book captures the daily anguish of people during the thirties. It puts the reader in direct contact with Depression victims, evoking a feeling of what it was like to live through this disaster. Following Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration, both the number of letters received by the White House and the percentage of them coming from the poor were unprecedented. The average number of daily communications jumped to between 5,000 and 8,000, a trend that continued throughout the Rosevelt administration. The White House staff for answering such letters--most of which were directed to FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Harry Hopkins--quickly grew from one person to fifty. Mainly because of his radio talks, many felt they knew the president personally and could confide in him. They viewed the Roosevelts as parent figures, offering solace, help, and protection. Roosevelt himself valued the letters, perceiving them as a way to gauge public sentiment. The writers came from a number of different groups--middle-class people, blacks, rural residents, the elderly, and children. Their letters display emotional reactions to the Depression--despair, cynicism, and anger--and attitudes toward relief. In his extensive introduction, McElvaine sets the stage for the letters, discussing their significance and some of the themes that emerge from them. By preserving their original spelling, syntax, grammar, and capitalization, he conveys their full flavor. The Depression was far more than an economic collapse. It was the major personal event in the lives of tens of millions of Americans. McElvaine shows that, contrary to popular belief, many sufferers were not passive victims of history. Rather, he says, they were "also actors and, to an extent, playwrights, producers, and directors as well," taking an active role in trying to deal with their plight and solve their problems. For this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, McElvaine provides a new foreword recounting the history of the book, its impact on the historiography of the Depression, and its continued importance today.
Author : Barry Broadfoot
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771016523
Hundreds of ordinary Canadians tell their own stories in this book. They tell them in their own words, and the impact is astonishing. As page after page of unforgettable stories rolls by, it is easy to see why this book sold 300,000 copies and why a successful stage play that ran for years was based on them. The stories, and the 52 accompanying photographs, tell of an extraordinary time. One tells how a greedy Maritime landlord ho tried to raise a widow's rent was tarred and gravelled; another how rape by the boss was part of a waitress's job. Other stories show Saskatchewan families watching their farms turn into deserts and walking away from them; or freight-trains black with hoboes clinging to them, criss-crossing the country in search of work; or a man stealing a wreath for his own wife's funeral. Throughout this portrait of the era before Canada had a social safety net, there are amazing stories of what Time magazine called "human tragedy and moral triumph during the hardest of times." In the end, this is an inspiring, uplifting book about bravery, one you will not forget.
Author : Jim Tankersley
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781541767843
A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class decline and points the way to its revival. For over a decade, Jim Tankersley has been on a journey to understand what the hell happened to the world's greatest middle-class success story -- the post-World-War-II boom that faded into decades of stagnation and frustration for American workers. In The Riches of This Land, Tankersley fuses the story of forgotten Americans-- struggling women and men who he met on his journey into the travails of the middle class-- with important new economic and political research, providing fresh understanding how to create a more widespread prosperity. He begins by unraveling the real mystery of the American economy since the 1970s - not where did the jobs go, but why haven't new and better ones been created to replace them. His analysis begins with the revelation that women and minorities played a far more crucial role in building the post-war middle class than today's politicians typically acknowledge, and policies that have done nothing to address the structural shifts of the American economy have enabled a privileged few to capture nearly all the benefits of America's growing prosperity. Meanwhile, the "angry white men of Ohio" have been sold by Trump and his ilk a theory of the economy that is dangerously backward, one that pits them against immigrants, minorities, and women who should be their allies. At the culmination of his journey, Tankersley lays out specific policy prescriptions and social undertakings that can begin moving the needle in the effort to make new and better jobs appear. By fostering an economy that opens new pathways for all workers to reach their full potential -- men and women, immigrant or native-born, regardless of race -- America can once again restore the upward flow of talent that can power growth and prosperity.
Author : Peter Edelman
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595589576
“A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.” —Kirkus Reviews Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of America’s workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top. In this “accessible and inspiring analysis”, lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics and takes a particular look at young people of color, for whom the possibility of productive lives is too often lost on the way to adulthood (Angela Glover Blackwell). For anyone who wants to understand one of the critical issues of twenty-first century America, So Rich, So Poor is “engaging and informative” (William Julius Wilson) and “powerful and eloquent” (Wade Henderson).
Author : James Truslow Adams
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412847018
Originally published in 1931 by Little, Brown, and Company.