Name: What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times (en Inglés)
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Author: Dana Frank
ISBN: 9780807046906

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What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Dana Frank

Editorial

Beacon Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9780807046906

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Clases sociales
Historia de américa

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times (en Inglés)

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Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the Depression era. In four tales, Professor Dana Frank explores how ordinary working people in the US turned to collective action to meet the crisis of the Great Depression and what we can learn from them today. Readers are introduced to * the 7 daring Black women who worked as wet nurses and staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination * the groups who used mutual aid, cooperatives, eviction protests, and demands for government relief to meet their basic needs* the million Mexican and Mexican American repatriados who were erased from mainstream historical memory, while (often fictitious) white "Dust Bowl migrants" became enshrined* the Black Legion, a white supremacist fascist organization that saw racism, antisemitism, anti-Catholicism, and fascism as the cure to the DepressionWhile capitalism crashed during the Great Depression, racism did not and was, in fact, wielded by some to blame and oppress their neighbors. Patriarchy persisted, too, undermining the power of social movements and justifying women's marginalization within them. For other ordinary people, collective action gave them the means to survive and fight against such hostilities. What resulted were powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity that allowed people to provide each other with the bread, beans, and comradeship of daily life. The New Deal, when it arrived, provided vital resources to many, but others were cut off from its full benefits, especially if they were women or people of color. What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? shows us how we might look to the past to think about how we can shape the future of our own failed economy. These lessons can also help us imagine and build movements to challenge such an economy--and to transform the state as a whole--in service to the common good without replicating racism and patriarchy.

Dana Frank

(Autor)

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Dana Frank es una destacada historiadora y profesora en la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz. Su trabajo se centra en la historia laboral y los movimientos sociales en América Latina y Estados Unidos. Entre sus principales obras se encuentra "Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America" (2005), que analiza el papel de las mujeres en los sindicatos bananeros de América Latina. Este libro pertenece al género de historia social y laboral.

Además, es coautora de "Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century" (2001), que aborda tres huelgas significativas en la historia laboral de Estados Unidos. Su obra "Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism" (1999) explora el nacionalismo económico en el país. Frank es reconocida por su enfoque en la intersección de género, trabajo y movimientos sociales, aportando una perspectiva crítica y profunda en sus investigaciones.

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