What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Home > General > What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



International Edition


About the Book

Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion during the Great Depression that change our understanding of the era and shed light on our own

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? draws on the voices of individual working people to tell the stories left out of standard histories of that era. Two chapters focus on inspiring, often audacious militance: One tells the story of seven Black women who worked as wet nurses selling their breast milk to the City of Chicago, who daringly staged a sit-down strike at City Hall to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination.

A second looks at the ways diverse people sought to meet their basic needs through mutual aid, cooperatives, eviction protests, or demands for government relief, in the process imagining and building alternative societies. Both these chapters challenge us to rethink what a labor movement might look like if it embraced both waged labor and women's labors in the home.

A third chapter looks at the forcible expulsion of a million Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, and contrasts its erasure in our historical memory with the enshrinement of poor white migrants, often fictional. A final chapter looks closely at the Black Legion, a white supremacist fascist organization in the Upper Midwest among working-class white men (and a few women), whose members saw racism, anti-semitism, anti-Catholicism, and a fascist seizure of the state as the answer to the Depression.

Collective action during the 1930s could mean protest against inequality and racism, but it could also mean finding new ways to blame and oppress others. Or it could mean new strategies to simply survive such hostilities. As its best, it meant powerful new forms of horizontal reciprocity and solidarity through which ordinary people sought to collectively provide the bread, beans, and comradeship of daily life.

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? helps us imagine how to address our own failed economy, and how to imagine and build movements challenging it that do not themselves replicate racism and patriarchy. And it helps us imagine what our own transformation of the state might look like, in service to the common good.


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780807046906
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0807046906
  • Publisher Date: 08 Oct 2024
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 658 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Beacon Press -
What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!