This book is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years. The author reassesses the origins and premises of the industrial, labor, and welfare policies of the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that the labor and welfare law of the latter New Deal--indeed the origins of the modern welfare state--grew from a piecemeal private response to the competitive instability of the 1920s. This study is both an economic history of the interwar era, and an examination of the relationship between political and economic power in the United States.
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"Gordon's most original contribution to the literature on corporate influence on the New Deal is developed in his discussion of labor policy....Gordon gives us a much better understanding of the complexities of business' relationship with the New Deal." Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Business History Review
"Gordon's account is well researched and carefully argued....readers will find Gordon's perspective on business, labor, and the New Deal fresh and stimulating..." West Virginia History
"...valuable, synthesizing work....one of the first to delineate clearly changing patterns of business legislative actions during the depression decade. Thoroughly grounded in secondary and primary sources, and including an up-to-date bibliographic essay, this work is especially suitable for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students studying recent American history." Choice
"This is an impressive book. The argument throughout is presented in a cognent, lucid style. The research in new or seldom-used sources and the command of a wide range of business histories is exceptional. The analysis is always provocative....Gordon demands the serious attention of any scholar interested in the New Deal and the history of the 20th century's political economy." David E. Hamilton, Labour/Le Travail
"Gordon's account is well researched and carefully argued....readers will find Gordon's perspective on business, labor, and the New Deal fresh and stimulating..." West Virginia History
"...valuable, synthesizing work....one of the first to delineate clearly changing patterns of business legislative actions during the depression decade. Thoroughly grounded in secondary and primary sources, and including an up-to-date bibliographic essay, this work is especially suitable for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students studying recent American history." Choice
"This is an impressive book. The argument throughout is presented in a cognent, lucid style. The research in new or seldom-used sources and the command of a wide range of business histories is exceptional. The analysis is always provocative....Gordon demands the serious attention of any scholar interested in the New Deal and the history of the 20th century's political economy." David E. Hamilton, Labour/Le Travail
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Arguing that the labor and welfare law of the latter New Deal grew from a response to the competitive instability of the period, the origins and premises of the policies of the 1920s and 1930s are reassessed in the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years.
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Colin Gordon writes a fascinating history of the New Deal, which challenges the reading of Gabriel Kolko and Capture Theory. He argues that their was no monolithic business interest, but that the competitiveness of individual firms made it virtually impossible to organize around and control government regulation. Gordon's writing is excellent and his examples capture the age. A must read for any scholar of the era, or anyone who thinks they know all there is to know about the New Deal.
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The New Deal was a set of exceptional political choices made under exceptional political, economic, and historical circumstances. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regulatory unionism, managerial threat, capitalist collective action, organizing capitalists, trade practice conferences, state welfare law, federal welfare law, federal labor policy, price filing, open pricing, marginal competitors, tire firms, competitive stability, pine industry, electrical manufacturing industry, unemployment plans, southern firms, business anxieties, radical unionism, worker insurgency, business patrons, regulatory potential, competitive federalism, code authorities, pricing provisions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Wagner Act, Hoover Papers, Hagley Museum, World War, Sachs Papers, Chamber of Commerce, Raskob Papers, National Recovery Administration, Herbert Hoover, National Association of Manufacturers, Chamber Papers, Harrington Papers, Special Conference Committee, Lamont Papers, National Archives, Business Week, Department of Commerce Records, General Electric, National Industrial Conference Board, Work Materials, Ellis Hawley, New South, Henderson Papers New!
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The New Deal was a set of exceptional political choices made under exceptional political, economic, and historical circumstances. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regulatory unionism, managerial threat, capitalist collective action, organizing capitalists, trade practice conferences, state welfare law, federal welfare law, federal labor policy, price filing, open pricing, marginal competitors, tire firms, competitive stability, pine industry, electrical manufacturing industry, unemployment plans, southern firms, business anxieties, radical unionism, worker insurgency, business patrons, regulatory potential, competitive federalism, code authorities, pricing provisions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Wagner Act, Hoover Papers, Hagley Museum, World War, Sachs Papers, Chamber of Commerce, Raskob Papers, National Recovery Administration, Herbert Hoover, National Association of Manufacturers, Chamber Papers, Harrington Papers, Special Conference Committee, Lamont Papers, National Archives, Business Week, Department of Commerce Records, General Electric, National Industrial Conference Board, Work Materials, Ellis Hawley, New South, Henderson Papers New!
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- Capitalist Collective Action: Competition, Cooperation and Conflict in the Coal Industry (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by John R. Bowman on 6 pages
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