Social history of the United States
Subtitle: the 1930s
By: Cecelia Bucki.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781851099214
Subjects: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Experiences of the early Depression, 1929-1932; title: Great crash and financial crisis; title: Poverty and unemployment; title: Local relief efforts; title: Rural poverty; title: The 1932 presidential election; title: New Deal and American society; title: The first New Deal; title: Second New Deal; title: The contours of popular politics; title: Social movements; title: Populism; title: Faith-based movements; title: Ethnic community concerns; title: Leftist alternatives to the New Deal; title: The labor movement; title: Union successes, 1933-1934; title: The CIO, 1936-1938; title: Workers left out of federal law; title: Women and work; title: Labor's place after 1937; title: Rural life / by Catherine McNicol Stock; title: Dust Bowl; title: The New Deal response to the crisis in rural America and its impact on rural people; title: Modernizing rural America; title: Special concerns in other rural regions; title: Culture; title: Popular culture and the great Depression; title: Consumer culture and the culture of the airwaves; title: Movies of the great Depression; title: Politics, art, and the rediscovery of the "folk"; title: Proletarian culture and the "cultural front"; title: Private lives; title: Family; title: Women; title: Children and teenagers; title: Health patterns; title: Religion; title: Biographies.