American Labor and Economic Citizenship - New Capitalism From World War I to the Great Depression

Informationen zum Autor Mark Hendrickson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In the 1920s! a diverse group of social investigators and policy makers addressed a range of long-standing and seemingly intractable problems! confident that the period provided a unique moment full of opportunities. Led by Herbert Hoover! the group came to understand that a new! fair and prosperous version of capitalism could be achieved through steady economic growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hendrickson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107559677
• ISBN: 978-1-107-55967-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Labour / income economics, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)