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Available
Pages
338
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Collection
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Description
A combination of social history, labor history and a history of the New Deal, interweaving stories of migrant workers, laborers and policy makers. One chapter is devoted to the arts of the period and their portrayals of workers. Summaries of several leftist plays are also given, including plays by Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, and Erskine Caldwell. Also has several pages of photographs of Depression scenes and leaders of the period.
User reviews
LibraryThing member carterchristian1
Third in a series on the American worker. It covers the social programs introduced in the Roosevelt administration,aid to dependant children,social security, unemployment insurance. There are very good biographical sketches of the people who led the reforms as Harry Hopkins.
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Physical description
338 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0395331161 / 9780395331163
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