Description |
xli, 521 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Series |
The American heritage series, AHS63
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Bibliography |
Bibliography: page xxxvii-xli. |
Contents |
PART ONE -- Miners, millhands, factory workers: Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington -- PART TWO -- Farmers; sharecroppers, tenants, migrants -- PART THREE -- Hungry women and faltering homes: Minnesota, Colorado, New York -- PART FOUR -- Jobhunting: everywhere -- PART FIVE -- Hitting bottom: on the road, in the ring, on the bum -- PART SIX -- Concern and hope: vets, Negroes, CIO, TVA, CCC -- PART SEVEN -- Organizers, capitalists, fascists, communists: guys like me and you -- PART EIGHT -- American: the grand view. |
Summary |
Includes information on banks, Civilian Conservation Corps, communism, farming, flophouses, Hoovervilles, housing conditions, hunger immigrant experience, jungles, labor unions, Negroes, police, Public Works Administration, relief, scabs, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, sitdown strikes, Tennessee Valley Administration, unemployment, women workers, Works Progress Administration, etc. |
Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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Depressions -- Literary collections.
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