WAR PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL DECENTRALIZATION By mid-1938, events in Europe, Japan and China grabbed the attention of the leaders of Western democracies, including Roosevelt. Despite
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Chapter 12: the South and the New Deal: the Second Reconstruction (Breaking Up the Plantation Economy, TVA, the Nation’s Economic Problem Number One, Second Reconstruction with National Minimum Wage and Unions (FLSA))
THE NEW DEAL AND THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION The “Peculiar” Context of Southern Economic Development FDR’s southern strategies were fundamental, even radical—focused on infrastructure and an
Chapter 12: Introduction and the Alleged Catalyst: BAWI (Balance Agriculture with Industry)
The South: New Deal, World War II, and the fifties INTRODUCTION The shift to the South from the last chapter’s concentration on Big City slum
Chapter 11: Urban Renewal? Trying to Make Sense of this Chapter
URBAN RENEWAL? Two long-term takeaways follow from this section. The first observation to the observant reader is that, concentrating as we did on Housing Acts,
Chapter 11: Late Forties Urban Renewal: Taft and Housing Acts, Business Steals Urban Renewal from CD
TAFT GOES TO WASHINGTON The 1949 Housing Act Breaks the Logjam More than a decade had passed since the 1937 Housing Act. The winds of
Chapter 11: Robert Moses Leads the Parade: Moses as an Burnham-style ED planner, Pittsburgh and David Lawrence, the United Nations Project–the Breakout,
New York and Robert Moses: Policy Innovation or Abuse? A 1940 New York City Planning Commission plan offered a strategy: to rehouse the poor, stabilize
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