What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times

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Book

Authors

Frank ( Dana Frank )

Tags

Social issues, activism, grassroots, resistance, protest, democracy, working class, workers, racism, patriarchy

Description

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. 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.

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