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Federal Reserve behavior during the Great Depression
This thesis will examine possible determinants of Federal Reserve behavior during the Great Depression. It starts with the assumption that economic variables alone are unsatisfactory in determining Federal Reserve policy choices. Various explanations are then offered and examined. The role of …
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"To claim voice": The Discourses of Impoverished Children in the Great Depression
… saturated with images of suffering, especially the suffering of children, the voice of the impoverished child in modernist fiction of the Great Depression demands a different type of response as the reader experiences an experimental modernism that is, at once, as political and complicated as …
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Hours vs. Employment: The Determinants of Labor Market Adjustment Since The Great Depression
This thesis empirically investigates the determinants of three forms of quantity-side adjustment in the labor market--weekly hours, employment, and layoffs. We primarily focus on the role played by unionization and some of the non-wage labor costs that have become a quasi-fixed cost of employment. …
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Saving local communities using scrip money to fight the Great Depression in north central Iowa
1 PDF file (vii, 116 pages)
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A social history of the unemployed in Adelaide during the great depression / [by] Ray Broomhill
vii, 303 leaves : ill. ; 31 cm
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The determinants and effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation assistance to banks during the Great Depression
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The Colonial government and the great depression in Northern Rhodesia: Administrative and legislative changes, 1929-1939
This study focuses on the administrative and legislative changes that the colonial government made in response to the impact of the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia. It reveals that the government mainly responded to the decline in government revenues, the widespread poverty and destitution …
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The Colonial government and the great depression in Northern Rhodesia: Administrative and legislative changes, 1929-1939
This study focuses on the administrative and legislative changes that the colonial government made in response to the impact of the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia. It reveals that the government mainly responded to the decline in government revenues, the widespread poverty and destitution …
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Radical women of Texas during the Great Depression: An overview of communism and labor union activities
… Graham, and Rebecca Taylor are representative of the diversity of agitators within the Texas labor movements in the 1930's as activists fighting for the conditions and rights of workers. While all three were involved in union organizing, which sought effective workers' rights, only Tenayuca joined …
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Working for American rights: black, white and Mexican American dockworkers in Texas during the Great Depression
In the 1930s, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) in Texas, a union with black and white members organized into segregated locals, expanded to include Mexican American dockworkers. Though the racially segregated structure of the union reflected the Jim Crow norms of Texas society, …
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Habitats of Abandonment: Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Dispossession from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression
… dissertation draws on American literature from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression to fashion a theory of abandonment, a term that designates both a material reality and a conceptual framework; abandonment names what remains unincorporated into the governing economic, political, …
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Beneath the poverty line during the Great Depression: The measurement and demographic composition of poverty in 1939
This thesis presents estimates of the poverty rate and the demographic composition of the poor in 1939. The underpinning of these estimates, and the foundation of the thesis, is the construction of poverty lines for 1939. The trend of household poverty over the twenty year period 1939 to 1959 is …
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Once proud princes: planters and plantation culture in Louisiana's northeast Delta, from the First World War through the Great Depression
The Delta country of northeast Louisiana is a richly productive alluvial region stretching south from the Arkansas line to the confluence of the Red and Mississippi Rivers below Natchez. As the source of great cotton fortunes made during antebellum times, it reflected the Old South ideal and, for …
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"I Don't Approve of That Way of Running a Family": Transient Children, Institutions, and Interventions in California Through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
This thesis studies the state of California's responses to migratory families and children during the Depression and Dust Bowl. In particular, it emphasizes the growth of several state bureaucracies during this time, including the Department of Public Health, the Department of Education, and the …
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"TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE:" INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RURAL RELIEF CLIENTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS DURING THE EMERGENCY RELIEF PERIOD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1933 TO 1935
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, millions of Americans suffered from long term unemployment and subsistence poverty while the federal government's New Deal attempted to address the problems of poverty. But the rural poor were affected by a kind of chronic poverty that would prove more …
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Flags of Caution for Future Downturns in the Housing Market Prediction Using the Markov Chain Model
The recent downturn in the United States housing market yielded a period of time akin to that of the Great Depression. Since the 1930s, there has never been an economic downturn in this country as close as that of the Great Depression era. The Depression experienced similarities to the current …
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Melting resources: A historical analysis of the 1932 Olympic Winter and Summer Games (New York, California).
The current editions of the Olympic Games have been criticized as being too grandiose and expensive to stage. While the IOC's Programme Commission attempts to address these concerns, one need only look to the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, and Summer Games in Los Angeles, …
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Reno at the Races: Sporting Life versus Progressive Reform
The thesis examines horse race betting in the state of Nevada from 1915 to 1931 and how two opposing forces - sporting life and progressive reform - converged as state lawmakers passed progressive gambling legislation. While maybe not a catalyst, this legislation began Nevada's slippery slope to …
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