Going it alone
Subtitle: Fargo grapples with the Great Depression
By: David B. Danbom.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- North Dakota -- Fargo.; New Deal, 1933-1939 -- North Dakota -- Fargo.; Fargo (N.D.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.; Fargo (N.D.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Fargo (N.D.) -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "In Going It Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression, historian David B. Danbom shows how this exemplary American city struggled to survive problems it could not solve by itself. People of all classes shunned and demonized those who accepted relief. Unemployed men formed a club to barter goods and to influence work programs. City leaders, forced to accept federal help, fought for local control. Danbom also traces the effects of larger cultural changes not rooted in the Depression but sometimes exacerbated by it - struggles between employers and workers, the growing independence of women, and conflict between parents and children."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Depression comes to Fargo; title: Self-help; title: Federal help; title: Relief and reliefers; title: Working; title: Women's work and women's lives; title: Dealing with disorder.