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Life After Retirement

was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Life of Tillie Olsen in Her Stories

may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

Two Essays in One, the Great Depression and Alexander Hamilton's Financial System

effect was worse due to the number of people who had bought their stock with borrowed money and were forced to liquidate capital t...

Gender Roles and the Effect of the Great Depression

deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...

Capitalism and Europe in the 20th Century

barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the Great Dust Bowl, and Families

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

Amerian Society and Economy as Presented in John Ford's Stagecoach and Ann Banks' First Person America

of such changes that occurred during the 1930s. A number of the First Person America interviews focus upon the sharp class consci...

U.S. Workforce and the Role of African American Women

In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...

Dust Bowl and the Great Depression

Fed the kids..and raised a big family But the rain quit and the wind got high...

U.S. Great Depression and its Causes

In eight pages this paper discusses the 1929 to 1941 Great Depression in America in a consideration of its causes. Three sources ...

Economics of the Great Depression

In twelve pages this paper examines the social, political, but primarily economic factors that culminated in the Great Depression ...

Politics and Society in Argentina During the Thirties and Forties

increasingly corrupt, set the stage for the Army revolt that occurred in September, 1930 (Alexander 3). A predecessor of the 1943 ...

Brother Can You Spare A Dime? by Milton Meltzer

In five pages this text on the Great Depression is summarized. There are no other sources listed....

A Saga of the Great Depression in 'Riding the Rails'

This is a 7 page paper that analyzes Errol L. Uys' text that considers how the Great Depression influenced American culture during...

Reviewing the New Deal

The programs of the New Deal have been in place since the 1930s. This research paper examines differing opinions on their success ...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

Was Huey P. Long a Villain or Hero?

In five pages the life of Huey P. Long is examined within the context of Glen Jeansonne's biography Messiah of the Masses Huey P....

Working Life in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

held a dance as a means by which to temporarily relieve their minds of the perpetual anxiety that intrinsically accompanies povert...

Economic Development and Roles of Investment and Savings

In three pages this paper discusses how economic development during the Great Depression was influenced by the roles played by sav...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

Making America by Carol Berkin

The writer analyzes Carol Berkin's book Making America: Changes at the Turn of the Century, and relates such events, eras and peop...

The Impact of Changes in Demography, Industrial Structure and Labor Market on the Health of Workers

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

Immigrant Workers who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad. This paper includes explanations...

France, Great Britain, and Postwar Europe's Left Wing Political Parties

good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens' and Impact of Rapid Industrialization

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

1800 Great Britain and Imprisonment

In five pages this paper examines how capitalism influenced the system of punishment in Great Britain at the beginning of the nine...

Industrial Revolution and the European Standard of Living

In five pages this paper examines Europe's especially Great Britain's standard of living during the Industrial Revolution in a con...

Labor Market Discrimination and Economic Analysis

In three pages 1992 Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker's economic analysis approach to labor market discrimination is examined in term...