Crack-Brained Professors and Baby Radicals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Joel Zogry
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
The State ◽  
Classical Sense ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Evolution Teaching

This chapter chronicles the student newspaper’s evolution to an on-campus daily publication in the 1920s, and how it rapidly professionalized and became both a critical laboratory for aspiring journalists, and helped to push for the creation of a school of journalism at UNC. The chapter also discusses causes the paper fought for or against, including defeat of the 1925 anti-evolution teaching bill in the state legislature, promotion of labor unions and rights in North Carolina’s mills and factories, and freedom for the students to have speakers on campus of all political persuasions. The chapter examines the universities growing reputation as a liberal institution, both in the classical sense and politically, and the beginnings of state politicians and media to question these issues, most notably David Clark. The first attempt to racially integrate the school, by Pauli Murray, is examined. Other topics covered include the Great Depression, the major university cheating scandal of 1936, the burning of all issues of a campus humor magazine considered indecent in 1939, and the anti-war sentiment at UNC, 1939-1941.

How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The State ◽  
Civilian Conservation Corps ◽  
Environment Change ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Park Service ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
The New Deal

In How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism, David Nelson examines the creation of modern Florida tourism through the state and federal government during the Great Depression. And more specifically, with the Florida civic-elite’s use of the Federal New Deal to develop state parks in order to re-boot Florida’s depressed tourist industry. The Florida Park Service is financially, thematically, ideally, and literally a direct product of the New Deal, as the Civilian Conservation Corps funded, designed, and in large ran the state park program. And the same can be said for much of modern Florida tourism, as well. So many of our current concerns—environment change and overdevelopment, Florida’s ongoing north-south cultural and political divide, ideas of what constitutes the “Real Florida,” and the continued fascination with the mythical “Florida Cracker”—have their origins in the 1930s. With such a focus, this book addresses three previously underserved topics—the creation of the Florida Park Service, the development and work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida, and a case study of the New Deal in Florida. Florida in the Great Depression has been largely ignored by historians when compared to other eras. But as this book will demonstrate, the New Deal era was in fact crucial to the creation of modern Florida.

Our Daily Bread: ‘Cooperation’, ‘Independence’ and Politics in Mid-1930s Cinema

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Neve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cooperative Activity ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter revisits and explores the production history of director King Vidor’s independently made movie, Our Daily Bread (1934), its ideological and aesthetic motifs, and its exhibition and reception in the United States and beyond, not least its apparent failure at the box office. It further considers the relationship between the film and contemporary advocacy of cooperative activity as a response to the Great Depression, notably by the California Cooperative League, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, and Upton Sinclair’s End Poverty in California campaign for the state governorship. It also assesses the movie in relation to Vidor’s own cooperative vision through its emphasis on individuals and community as a solution to the Great Depression and the significant absence of the state in this agency.

The Elusive Harmony between Government and Market Roles

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
Vito Tanzi
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
New Harmony ◽  
The 1960S

At any moment in time there ought to be some harmony between the intervention of the state that the market requires (to correct its market failures), and that citizens demand (to promote equity and a desirable income distribution) and the actual government intervention. This chapter argues that such harmony may have existed in the years when laissez faire was in place and was broadly accepted by those who had political power. The harmony became less and less evident in the later decades of the nineteenth century and during the Great Depression. There seemed to have been greater harmony in the 1960s. That harmony went down in the late 1970s and in the 1980s. It might have been partly restored in the 1990s, with a different conception of the role of the state, with less state and more market, at least in some countries. The harmony broke down again with the Great Recession in 2008–10, There is now, once again, a search for a new paradigm that would indicate the existence of a new harmony.

Creating the Reserve Army? The Immigration Program of Sao Paulo, 1886–1930

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
State Government ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyzes the relationship among coffee labor needs, the flow of immigrants to Sao Paulo, and the immigration policies of the state government from the decline of slavery in the 1880s to the onset of the Great Depression. Generally, the study seeks to determine to what degree and by what criteria the immigration program of São Paulo may be considered a “success”. The author uses this, then to help specify the changing relationship between the coffee planters and the state government.

scholarly journals How Much Does Political Uncertainty Matter? The Case of Louisiana under Huey Long

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Mathy ◽  
Nicolas L. Ziebarth
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Political Uncertainty ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Employment Data

We study the effect of political uncertainty on economic outcomes using the case of Huey Long's tenure as governor and senator of Louisiana during the Great Depression. Based on primary sources, we construct two well-established measures of uncertainty specifically for Louisiana: stock price volatility and newspaper mentions of terms related to “uncertainty” and the economy. Combining these uncertainty measures with employment data from the Census of Manufactures, we attempt to identify the effects of political uncertainty using the state of Mississippi as a control group. We find little support for a negative effect from political uncertainty in Huey Long's Louisiana.

A New Deal for Florida

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
David J. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Civilian Conservation Corps ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The New Deal

Chapter 2 explores both the nation’s and Florida’s reaction to the Great Depression, resulting in the New Deal and the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

From the Keynesian to the Supply-Side Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Vito Tanzi
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Rational Expectations ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Laffer Curve ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Marginal Tax Rates ◽  
The Impact

This chapter considers the impact of the Great Depression, Keynes’ countercyclical policies, and the Keynesian Revolution. It also looks at the growth of welfare states and of taxes, increasing levels of marginal tax rates and the increasing power of labor unions. This chapter deals with the beginnings of a conservative counter-revolution. New theories, such as growing influence of. the Ricardian Equivalence Hypothesis, Rational Expectations theory, and the Laffer Curve were having a growing influence. Several countries experienced stagflation in the late 1970s. The 1970s included the rise of conservative politicians the arrival of the supply-side revolution and an attempted return to some laissez faire policies. This in turn led to attacks on regulations and on high marginal tax rates. Finally, the chapter heralds the growth of globalization.

scholarly journals The perception of budgeting in Czech firms — results of a survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Jiří Dokulil ◽  
Jana Zlámalová ◽  
Boris Popesko
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Budgetary Process ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
A Company ◽  
Budgeting Process

Research background: Budgeting was developed during the Great Depression as a mana-gerial tool to help enterprises survive a critical period characterized by fluctuations in mac-roeconomic indicators. Now, after more than eighty years, budgeting is criticized for the same reason why it was created — for lack of adaptability to unexpected changes in the business environment. Based on these facts, the presented study focuses on the specifics of budgeting in the current business environment.Purpose of the article: The aim of the work is to explore selected aspects of budgeting process in Czech firms, and to assess how the budgetary process is influenced by the pro-gression of the business environment.Methods: To achieve presented target, the authors designed the questionnaire survey sub-mitted to employees of companies in the Czech Republic.Findings & Value added: The first part of this paper displays the state of knowledge on budgeting, the following part presents results of the survey. The study identified several trends, especially in the use of budgeting in Czech firms, characteristics of budgets in these subjects and evaluation of the sustainability of a company´s environment.

Tourism, Conservation, and State Parks

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
David J. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
State Parks ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Park Service ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Depression Era

For Florida, conservation and tourism have always been linked. As many argued during the Great Depression era, we should conserve those elements that we can sell to visitors. This chapter looks at the development of both during the 1930s and how they led to the creation of the Florida Park Service.

Son of the Forgotten Man

2019 ◽  
pp. 516-546
Author(s):  
Vincent DiGirolamo
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The State ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Fair Labor Standards Act

The Great Depression exposed newsboys to the vicissitudes of the market and the power of the state in new ways. They formed unions, joined strikes, and, for a time, came under federal protection. Publishers argued that newsboys were not employees but independent contractors who should be exempt the Fair Labor Standards Act and other New Deal measures. Caught up in this tug-of-war between a paternalistic capitalist press and an expansive welfare state, the American newsboy became a contested figure in popular culture, appearing in WPA murals, proletarian novels, and other works as a symbol of working-class resentment more than as an icon of bourgeois virtue. The shrill, restless son of the Forgotten Man, he helped America reassess the merits of laissez faire capitalism and recalibrate government’s responsibility to citizens young and old.

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