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Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824008987
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and Minorities During the Great Depression written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamilton Cravens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Depression written by Hamilton Cravens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression. Who were the people waiting in the bread lines and living in Hoovervilles? Who were the migrants heading North and West? Did anyone survive the Depression relatively unscathed? Giving a voice to stories often untold, Great Depression: People and Perspectives covers the full spectrum of American life, portraying the experiences of ordinary citizens during the worst economic crisis in the nation's history. Great Depression shows how specific groups coped with the traumatic upheaval of the times, including rural Americans, women, children, African Americans, and immigrants. In addition, it offers revealing chapters on the conflict between social scientists and policymakers responding to the crisis, the impact of the Depression on the health of U.S. citizens, and the roles that American technology and Hollywood movies played in helping the nation survive.
Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319087
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Daughters of the Great Depression written by Laura Hapke and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.
Author : Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442200510
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Ask for an Equal Chance written by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, first fired," black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security. Black workers, who were generally urban newcomers, impoverished and lacking industrial skills, were already at a disadvantage. These difficulties were intensified by an overt, and in the South legally entrenched, system of racial segregation and discrimination. New federal programs offered hope as they redefined government's responsibility for its citizens, but local implementation often proved racially discriminatory. As Cheryl Lynn Greenberg makes clear, African Americans were not passive victims of economic catastrophe or white racism; they responded to such challenges in a variety of political, social, and communal ways. The book explores both the external realities facing African Americans and individual and communal responses to them. While experiences varied depending on many factors including class, location, gender and community size, there are also unifying and overarching realities that applied universally. To Ask for an Equal Chance straddles the particular, with examinations of specific communities and experiences, and the general, with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.
Author : Elna C. Green
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036583
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Looking for the New Deal written by Elna C. Green and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rife with palpable misery and often pleading with desperate urgency, the hundreds of letters assembled in Looking for the New Deal paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. Searching for help at a time when desperation overwhelmed America, women in Florida shared the same goal as their counterparts elsewhere in the country - they wanted work. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, these women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters asking for relief assistance from agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials. In this volume Elna C. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The voices of women from all walks of life - black and white, rural and urban, old and young, historically poor and newly impoverished - testify to the determination and ingenuity invoked in facing trying times."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bernard Sternsher
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women of Valor written by Bernard Sternsher and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents autobiographical accounts of women who influenced government and labor policy during the Depression.
Author : Josh Sides
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520939868
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book L.A. City Limits written by Josh Sides and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1568585950
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book It's Up to the Women written by Eleanor Roosevelt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today.
Author : Lois Scharf
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Work and To Wed written by Lois Scharf and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-04-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : BRENDA FAYE CLEGG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book BLACK FEMALE DOMESTICS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN NEW YORK CITY 1930-1940 written by BRENDA FAYE CLEGG and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: unskilled laborers, blacks and women. By examining the effect the Depression had on their daily lives one can gain insight into their impact on the community.
