Charity or Industry?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Indian New Deal ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Work Relief ◽  
The U.S

Despite proven entrepreneurial successes in the southwest, only 11 out of 156 U.S. federal work relief projects designated for Indian reservations during the Depression specifically targeted women. Those schemes, administrated by home extension programmers, were, in essence, occupationally reductive and domestic in nature. This chapter examines relief programs among Blackfeet women in Cut Bank, Montana, during the 1930s. Such programs potentially shunt women, once again, to “the margins of the capitalist labor market in the 1930s.” Even in the so-called enlightened modern era promised by the administrative renaissance of the U.S. Indian New Deal, economic policies were restrictively gendered in design and scope.

A Dream of Emancipation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Grillot
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
New Deal ◽  
World War ◽  
Indian Reservations ◽  
Indian Country ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian New Deal ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter shows how the contradictions and frustrations surrounding veterans came to a head with the onset of the “Indian New Deal” initiated by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Indian commissioner, John Collier. As Collier pushed his agenda of reform and return to communal landholding on Indian reservations, patriotism became the privileged weapon of an active minority of veterans spearheading resistance to the New Deal. Moreover, World War II proved a very favorable moment to realize a rhetorical and organizational connection that linked patriotism, the conservative defense of Indians' civic rights, and the rising tide of termination. At the end of the 1940s, the World War I generation reached the peak of its influence in Indian country and demonstrated the complexity of Indian patriotism. A new generation of Indian soldiers was soon to take their place. They would turn ceremonies popularized with World War I into a new, modern Indian tradition.

scholarly journals The Logic and Legitimacy of Bank Supervision: The Case of the Bank Holiday of 1933

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Peter Conti-Brown ◽  
Sean H. Vanatta
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Banking Crises ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Bank Supervision ◽  
Political Skills ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. banking holiday of March 1933 was a pivotal event in twentieth-century political and economic history. After closing the nation's banks for nine days, the administration of newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt restarted the banking system as the first step toward national recovery from the global Great Depression. In the conventional narrative, the holiday succeeded because Roosevelt used his political talents to restore public confidence in the nation's banks. However, such accounts say virtually nothing about what happened during the holiday itself. We reinterpret the banking crises of the 1930s and the 1933 holiday through the lens of bank supervision, the continuous oversight of commercial banks by government officials. Through the 1930s banking crises, federal supervisors identified troubled banks but could not act to close them. Roosevelt empowered supervisors to act decisively during the holiday. By closing some banks, supervisors made credible Roosevelt's claims that banks that reopened were sound. Thus, the union of FDR's political skills with the technical judgment of bank supervisors was the key to solving the banking crisis. Neither could stand alone, and both together were the vital precondition for further economic reforms—including devaluing the dollar—and, with them, Roosevelt's New Deal.

scholarly journals The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

1994 ◽  
Vol 1994 (2) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gottschalk ◽  
Robert Moffitt ◽  
Lawrence F. Katz ◽  
William T. Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Earnings Instability ◽  
The U.S

Not Enough Time?

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Equilibrium ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The U.S ◽  
American Labor

This study summarizes evidence on various unique aspects of work time in the American labor market. Compared to workers in other rich countries, Americans: Work longer hours per week; take fewer paid vacations; are more likely to work on weekends or at nights; enjoy fewer daily hours of leisure; are more likely to feel pressured for time. Except for night/weekend work, these phenomena are concentrated among higher earners. Their workaholism spills over onto other workers and non-worker family members. The study indicates policy remedies for what appears to be an inferior labor-market equilibrium of excessive market work in the U.S.

scholarly journals Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Burstein ◽  
Gordon Hanson ◽  
Lin Tian ◽  
Jonathan Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Impact ◽  
The U.S
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