American Labor and Economic Citizenship

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-107-02860-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

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 Hendrickson both augments and amends this view by studying the origins and development of New Era policy expertise and knowledge. Policy-oriented social scientists in government, trade union, academic and nonprofit agencies showed how methods for achieving stable economic growth through increased productivity could both defang the dreaded business cycle and defuse the pattern of hostile class relations that Gilded Age depressions had helped to set as an American system of industrial relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendrickson, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Hendrickson, Mark
Mark Hendrickson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.