New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935
Cambridge University Press, 9/15/1994
EAN 9780521451222, ISBN10: 0521451221
Hardcover, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
This book is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years. Employing archival research and insights from history, political sociology, and economics, the author reassesses the origins and premises of the industrial, labour, and welfare policies of the 1920s and 1930s. Gordon argues that the labour 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.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations used in text and notes
Introduction
1. Rethinking the New Deal
the logic and limits of the American political economy
2. Competition and collective action
business condition and business strategies, 1920–1932
3. Workers organising capitalists
regulatory unionism in American industry, 1920–1932
4. The limits of associationalism
business organisation and disorganisation, 1920–1932
5. The National Recovery Act
the political economy of business organisation, 1933–1935
6. The Wagner Act
the political economy of labour relations, 1933–1937
7. The Social Security Act
the political economy of welfare capitalism, 1920–1935
8. New Deal, old deck
business, labour, and politics after 1935
Notes
Bibliographical essay
Manuscript collections.