Dark Realities: Americas Great Depression

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    • In December , for example, the United Auto Workers started a sit-down strike at a GM plant in Flint, Michigan that lasted for 44 days and spread to some , autoworkers in 35 cities. By , to the dismay of most corporate leaders, some 8 million workers had joined unions and were loudly demanding their rights. Meanwhile, the New Deal itself confronted one political setback after another.

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    Arguing that they represented an unconstitutional extension of federal authority, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court had already invalidated reform initiatives like the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. That same year, the economy slipped back into a recession when the government reduced its stimulus spending. Despite this seeming vindication of New Deal policies, increasing anti-Roosevelt sentiment made it difficult for him to enact any new programs. The war effort stimulated American industry and, as a result, effectively ended the Great Depression.

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    They created a brand-new, if tenuous, political coalition that included white working people, African Americans and left-wing intellectuals. These people rarely shared the same interests — at least, they rarely thought they did — but they did share a powerful belief that an interventionist government was good for their families, the economy and the nation.

    Their coalition has splintered over time, but many of the New Deal programs that bound them together — Social Security, unemployment insurance and federal agricultural subsidies, for instance — are still with us today. Start your free trial today.

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    Roosevelt in , created Social Security, a federal safety net for elderly, unemployed and disadvantaged Americans. The main stipulation of the original Social Security Act was to pay financial benefits to This book covers the turbulent period of to in America's history, which went from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression and recovery via the New Deal.

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    It introduces us to the key figures and reveals the impact which the Great Depression had on the American people. The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour: It seemed as if the good times with Presidents Harding and then Coolidge in charge would never end.

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    Workers grew more militant: US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Corporate abuse Accounting scandals Corporate behaviour Corporate crime Control fraud Corporate scandals Discrimination Dress code Employee handbook Employee monitoring Evaluation Labour law Sexual harassment Sleeping while on duty Wage theft Whistleblower Workplace bullying Workplace harassment Workplace incivility. The Great Depression hit Italy very hard. Ayn Rand and the American Right , p. Changing interpretations and changing perceptions. The book introduces the key figures of this time period and reveals the impact that the Great Depression had on the American people.

    In marked contrast were the fortunes of many European countries, struggling to repay war debts and with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles plunging Germany into economic catastrophe. With Herbert Hoover now President, the US markets continued to climb and some investors sold out, sensing trouble ahead. The Crash came in October , and America slid into deep depression.

    Against a background of bank failures, industrial decline, rural poverty and unemployment, protests, strikes and riots broke out. Hoover was swept from power in and it fell to the new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to revive America's fortunes with a number of ground-breaking new programmes which made up the New Deal.

    This book covers this turbulent period in America's history, introducing us to the key figures and revealing the impact which the Great Depression had on the American people.

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    The Trials of President Hoover. Hunger, Hoovervilles and Hoboes. The Defeat of President Hoover. Governor of New York. The Banking Crisis of The Tennessee Valley Authority.

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    The End of the Hundred Days. Trouble with the NRA. Set a Thief to Catch a Thief. The Social Security Act of Showdown with the Supreme Court.

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