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American labor and economic citizenship : new capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression /
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 He...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; American Labor and Economic Citizenship; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations and Table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 "Hoovering" in the Twenties; Postwar Labor Unrest and the Arrival of Herbert Hoover; Confronting and Defining Waste in Industry; A Public Concern: The Workday in the Steel Industry; Wages, Hours, and "a feeling of partnership"; "This almost insatiable appetite for goods and services": The NBER Celebrates the Worker-Consumer; Conclusion; 2 Wages and the Public Interest; Mistakes and Makeovers: Wage and Price Statistics, 1914-1925.
- Measuring Wages in the Postwar EraWages as a Public Concern; Prosperity and Wage Justice: The Post-1922 Real Wage Increase; Conclusion; 3 Enlightened Labor?; The AFL's Search for a New Mission; The Rise of the Labor Research Bureau; More than Just More: A New Wage Policy for Organized Labor; Labor's New Friends; The AFL as a Watchdog for Economic Stability; Open the Books: The LBI's Examination of Profits; "Assuming responsibility for service": The B & O Experiment; Conclusion; 4 A New Capitalism?; Interrogating New Capitalism: The RSF Studies.
- The Filene Department Store and Dutchess Bleachery InvestigationsThe Rockefeller Plan in the Coal and Steel Industry; Conclusion: A New Capitalism?; 5 Gender Research as Labor Activism; Empowering Expertise: The Creation of the Women's Bureau; Redefining Women Workers as Breadwinners; Labor Inquiry as Activism Through Gendered and Race Knowledge; Advocating Labor Standards Before and After Adkins; Conclusion; 6 The New "Negro Problem"; An Intractable Condition; Celebration and Concern: First Steps at Making Sense of the Migration; The Rise and Fall of the Division of Negro Economics.
- The Red Summer and the Emergence of Charles S. JohnsonConclusion; 7 Promising Problems; Framing the Postwar Immigration Debate; Reconstructing the Public Perception of the Negro Problem; Considering the Relative Position of the Negro and Mexican Worker; Remaking the Public Image of the Mexican Problem; Conclusion; Conclusion; Archival Sources and Abbreviations; Index.