Design Piracy in the Fashion Industries of Paris and New York in the Interwar Years

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Pouillard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
American Fashion ◽  
Fashion Designers

During the Great Depression, counterfeiters of the newest styles posed a challenge to the high-fashion designers who dominated Parisian design. Meanwhile, New York, traditionally the destination of the first corporate buyers of Paris couture, became a potential contender for the role of fashion capital. Scrutiny of French and American laws reveals that strong national interests were at stake in the fashion business. In France, the law safeguarded copyrights of fashion design while, in the United States, legislators denied such protection to American fashion.

Dafora, Asadata (1890--1965)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takiyah Nur Amin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
African Dance ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
Cultural Aesthetics

Multidisciplinary artist Asadata Dafora (also known as Austin Asadata Dafora Horton) was widely known for his contributions to dance as well as for the propagation of African drumming and cultural aesthetics across the United States. As a composer, librettist, singer, choreographer, and dancer, Dafora built a formidable career during the Great Depression, creating full-length operatic works using African drumming, instrumentation, dance styles, and cultural themes. His groundbreaking work Kykunkor (1934), based on Mende folklore, employed authentic African dance, music, language and a predominantly African-born cast and ran for months to increasingly larger audiences in New York. In 1960 he returned to Sierra Leone to serve as Director of Culture, and after his return to the United States two years later, he turned over the leadership of his company to Esther Rolle. As one of the first artists to introduce authentic African dance and music to American audiences, Dafora became a pioneer of black concert dance.

Unemployment and Real Wages in the Great Depression

2010 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. R51-R61
Author(s):  
Solomos Solomou ◽  
Martin Weale
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
Econometric Evidence

This article uses a dataset covering ten advanced economies (Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States) to explore the role of real wages as an influence on employment and unemployment in the Great Depression and more generally in the 1920s and 1930s. The distinction between employment and unemployment movements during the Great Depression helps to clarify the role of supply side influences on the national heterogeneity of unemployment increases during the Great Depression. We find little general econometric evidence for the idea that movements in product wages had strong influences on employment either during the period of rising unemployment associated with the depression of the 1930s or more generally with the data which exist for the 1920s and 1930s.

Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-77
Author(s):  
Alexander Kitroeff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
The Moment

This chapter describes the moment of ascendancy of Greek Orthodoxy in the United States. It talks about Archbishop Athenagoras, who arrived from Greece and introduced sweeping changes that essentially meant an effective implementation of the idea of a centralized governing body that would hold sway over the parishes. It also looks into Archbishop Athenagoras' decree that permits parishes to assume full responsibility for all local Greek communal activities, such as education, philanthropy, national commemorations, and cultural events. The chapter examines how parishes assumed the primary role in organizing Greek American religious and secular activities. It recounts the time of the Great Depression that weakened the role of the secular Greek American organizations both nationally and locally.

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