HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: New Deal Coalition, Second New Deal, Sitdown Strike
25 Aug 2016
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First new deal very top bottom reform. Companies aim to break down communities to bring workers together and end community reliance: backfires: workers identify that they have a lot of the same problems and they come together against companies, first time working class is identified. First new deal is focused on top-down economic recovery. Challenged from the bottom up: formation of the congress of industrial organization (cio) Cio very militant, make very large demands. Sit-down strike: all workers sit down at the workplace at a given time, brings factories to a stand-still, unions are very powerful now as compared to in the past government/military will not intervene. Overtime you"re given time and a half. Liberalism: responsibility of the government to ensure some level of security, moral obligation of government to ensure security, democracy of opportunity . Group of voters that vote democrat during this new deal period: three main groups:
