The Civil Works Administration, 1933-1934 : the Business of Emergency Employment in the New Deal.

Bonnie Fox Schwartz examines the New Deal's Civil Works Administration, the first federal job-creation program for the unemployed. Challenging assumptions that social workers and other urban liberals dominated New Deal relief agencies, she describes the role of engineers and industrial managers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartz, Bonnie Fox, 1945-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=791406
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; 5. Civil Works for the White Collar and Professional.