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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009) excerpt and text search; Field, Alexander J. A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale University Press; 2011) 387 pages; argues that technological innovations in the 1930s laid the foundation for economic success in World War II and postwar
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
The Great Depression was much less severe than in the United States, primarily because the sharp drop in the cost of food work to the benefit of the working class in the city. Washington provided much of the funding for a large middle-class bureaucracy and for major construction projects.
The Great Depression was an economic crisis of the 1930s. ... (1 C, 16 P) G. American gangsters of the interwar period (4 C, 241 P) N. New Deal ...
The Act and tariffs imposed by America's trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression. [5] Economists and economic historians have agreed that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff worsened the effects of the Great Depression.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...
The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941 Harvard University Press, 1960; Robert Goldston. The Great Depression: The United States in the Thirties, Fawcett Publications, 1968; D. A. Hayes, "Business Confidence and Business Activity: A Case Study of the Recession of 1937," Michigan Business Studies v 10 #5 ...
The lessons of the generation that weathered the Great Depression include self-sufficiency, frugality, and improvisation. ... a surprising number of lessons from the hardships of the 1930s endure ...