Jacobs Pocketbook Politics

Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4378-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 48, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Politics and Society in Modern America

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Meg

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Verhaltensökonomik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction

Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century 1

PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930

Chapter One: From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917 15

Chapter Two: Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930 53

PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE, 1930-1940

Chapter Three: The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935 95

Chapter Four: The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 136

PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960

Chapter Five: The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 179

Chapter Six: Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960 221

Epilogue: Back to Bargain Hunting 262

Notes 266

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Meg Jacobs is Associate Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, She is the co-editor of The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (Princeton).