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Class and power in the New Deal : corporate moderates, southern Democrats, and the liberal-labor coalition /
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal--the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate modera...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in social inequality.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal--the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three major initiatives and explores why there were no viable alternatives put forward by the opposition. More generally, this book analyzes the seeming paradox of policy support and political opposition. Th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804779029 0804779023 |