New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920–1935 - Softcover

Gordon, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521457556 ISBN 13: 9780521457552

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years. The author reassesses the origins and premises of the industrial, labor, and welfare policies of the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that the labor and welfare law of the latter New Deal--indeed the origins of the modern welfare state--grew from a piecemeal private response to the competitive instability of the 1920s. This study is both an economic history of the interwar era, and an examination of the relationship between political and economic power in the United States.

About this title

Book Description:

Arguing that the labor and welfare law of the latter New Deal grew from a response to the competitive instability of the period, the origins and premises of the policies of the 1920s and 1930s are reassessed in the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years.

From the Back Cover:

This book is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in almost thirty years. Gordon not only recasts our understanding of New Deal programs, but also offers a compelling interpretation of the relationship among those programs, of their roots in the 1920s, and the way in which they were shaped by powerful, if disorganized, economic interests.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521457556
• ISBN 13: 9780521457552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344