HISTORY 124B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Deal Coalition, Economic Security, Mexican Repatriation
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Argument: the great crash of 1929 and its social and economic repercussions revealed the shortcomings of the state. Quick overview: lasted from 1929 until 1939, worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized west, by 1931, 6 million job seeking americans were out of work, president herbert hoover relied on voluntarism . He believed that the federal government ought to collaborate with the state governments and local relief organizations. The depression and workers: how did the depression impact workers, women are the first to lose their jobs, employers enforced pre-existing racial hierarchies, major employers began laying off workers. Ford had 128,000 workers in early 1929. 37,000: middle class americans saw pay cuts. The bonus army: 20k wwi vets and their families camped in dc in the summer of 1932: demanded the payment of their bonuses legally due in 1945. Responses to the great depression and the new deal from above.
