CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Public Attitudes Toward Government: The Social and
Political Contexts of the Great Depression and Great Recession
Sheila D. Collins
Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Crises: A Comparative View of the
Political Economy of the Great Depression and Great Recession
Volker Janssen
Chapter 3: The Bottom-Up Recovery: A New Deal in Banking and Public
Finance
Timothy A. Canova
Chapter 4: A Decade of Dissent: The New Deal and Popular
Movements
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Chapter 5: Labor Militancy and the New Deal: Some Lessons for
Today
Richard McIntyre
Chapter 6: The New Deal's Direct Job Creation Strategy: Providing
Employment Assurance for American Workers
Philip Harvey
Chapter 7: The New Deal and the Creation of an American Welfare
State
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Chapter 8: The Democratization of Culture: The Legacy of the New
Deal Arts Programs
Sheila D. Collins
Naomi Rosenblum
Chapter 9: The Rightful Heritage of All: The Environmental Lessons
of the Great Depression and the New Deal Response
Sheila D. Collins
Chapter 10: New Deal Agricultural Policy: The Unintended
Consequences of Supply Management
Bill Winders
Chapter 11 Conclusion: Learning from the Successes and Failures of
the New Deal
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Sheila D. Collins, Professor Emerita of Political Science, William
Paterson University
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Professor Emerita of Social Policy,
Adelphi University
"In this book we have a rich portrait of the policies and programs
of the New Deal with special attention directed to their relevance
to present conditions in the U.S. The editors and contributors
bring a wide range of expertise on the issues facing our country
both then and now. The book is essential reading for all concerned
citizens." --Franklin D. Roosevelt III, PhD, Professor Emeritus of
Economics, Sarah Lawrence College
"In an age when government intervention in the economy has become
passé, Sheila Collins' and Trudy Goldberg's When Government Helped
comes as a welcome breath of fresh air. This remarkable collection
of essays shows us that capitalism flourishes best when it is
properly regulated and managed in such a way as to promote the
common good of all. The best case yet of the necessity for the
American citizen to turn to what Franklin Roosevelt called
'the organized power of government.'" --David B. Woolner, PhD,
Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian of the Roosevelt
Institute, and co-editor of FDR and the Environment
"This is a wonderfully comprehensive analysis of the New Deal's
responses to the Great Depression and the lessons learned from them
in our current Great Recession. The authors offer point-by-point
comparisons of the responses of Presidents Roosevelt and Obama to
their respective crises. This is no hagiography; the authors are as
clear-eyed and unsparing in their assessments of the limitations
and failures of New Deal policies as they are on Obama's lost
opportunities to understand their possibilities and successes. But
those successes were manifold and enduring and there is still time
to learn." --Robert D. Leighninger, Jr. PhD, Visiting Scholar,
Living
New Deal Project, Geography Department, University of California at
Berkeley; and author of Long-Range Public Development: The
Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal
"Professors Collins and Goldberg propose the publication of an
anthology that compares the circumstances and policy responses to
the New Deal and our current `Great Recession.' "Tightly focused on
the distinctive features of each period, this anthology emphasizes
the successes and failures of government programs, with an eye to
determining what might work in the future." --Joel Blau, DSW,
Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work
"The book has two major strengths that distinguish it from others
already on the market. The first is its interdisciplinary breadth,
and the second is its effort to draw on the historical lessons
learned in the New Deal era for forward-looking proposals that
might meet the challenges we face today. The book's second
strength, its announced goal of assessing the lessons that the New
Deal policy response brought us and using them to develop responses
to the
current economic crisis, might supply an alternative frame for the
book." --Marion Crain, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law,
Washington University St. Louis, Missouri
"Overall, the quality of work that can be expected from these
contributors is very high. The wide ranging topics and
interdisciplinary team are excellent. In my view, the pillars for
subject matter in the 1930s are banking laws and finance, public
service employment, and enactment of Social Security-and each of
these is addressed. Chapter 7 on Democratization of Culture is an
important and uncommon contribution, and environmental lessons in
Chapter 8 are very
welcome. In my view, the book can become an important contribution.
As noted above, my guidance would be lean a bit more toward applied
policy. Yes, I would purchase and read with great interest.
If teaching a relevant course, I would use this book as a text for
the theme of active policy innovation." --Michael Sherraden,
Director, Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School
of Social Work
"When Government Helped is vital reading for anyone interested in
thinking about alternatives to the constricted vision of government
responses to high unemployment that characterizes the current era.
It tells the story of the New Deal, a wide variety of innovative
programs developed in response to the Great Depression of the
1930s. Going beyond the usual lesson of the importance of deficit
spending, the essays in this timely volume explore their
successes and failures, and draw critically important lesson for
today." --Nancy E. Rose, PhD, Professor Emerita of Economics,
California State University, San Bernardino
"When Government Helped is a revelatory collection of essays. It
sheds light on how the New Deal order was put together, how it
transformed American public life, and where it failed to go far
enough. Even more exciting these essays are written in light of the
recent near collapse of our economy and draw valuable lessons from
the past about how to deal with our present dilemma." --Steve
Fraser, Co-Editor, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal
Order
"The wide-ranging topics and interdisciplinary team are
excellent...This book is an important contribution." --Michael
Sherraden, PhD, Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social
Development and Director, Center for Social Development, Washington
University in Saint Louis
"Tightly focused on the distinctive features of each period, this
anthology emphasizes the successes and failures of government
programs, with an eye to determining what might work in the future.
The scholarship is sound and comprehensive. When Government Helped
is well-conceptualized, timely, and I'd certainly recommend it."
--Joel Blau, DSW, Professor of Social Policy, Director of the PhD
Program, Stony Brook School of Social Welfare
"When Government Helped has two major strengths that distinguish it
from others already on the market. The first is its
interdisciplinary breadth, and the second is its effort to draw on
the historical lessons learned in the New Deal era for
forward-looking proposals that meet the challenges we face today.
This book's interdisciplinary lens fosters creative perspectives,
which yield new and exciting directions for reform." --Marion
Crain, JD, Vice
Provost, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and Director of the
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital,
Washington University Law
"When Government Helped is vital reading for anyone interested in
thinking about alternatives to the constricted vision of government
responses to high unemployment that characterizes the current era.
It tells the story of the New Deal, a wide variety of innovative
programs developed in response to the Great Depression of the
1930s. Going beyond the usual lesson of the importance of deficit
spending, the essays in this timely volume explore their
successes and failures, and draw critically important lesson for
today." --Nancy E. Rose, PhD, Professor Emerita of Economics,
California State University, San Bernardino
"When Government Helped is a revelatory collection of essays. It
sheds light on how the New Deal order was put together, how it
transformed American public life, and where it failed to go far
enough. Even more exciting these essays are written in light of the
recent near collapse of our economy and draw valuable lessons from
the past about how to deal with our present dilemma." --Steve
Fraser Co-Editor, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal
Order
"When Government Helped, a near encyclopedic account of New Deal
responses to the Great Depression, reminded me that the financial
crash coincided with a manmade environmental crisis. This even
handed and well written book describes, among many things, the
enlightened environmental thinking of the time starting with the
President himself. I had no idea that from 1911 to 1917, country
gentleman Franklin D. Roosevelt kept a farm journal about the
land
around Hyde Park. When Government Helped evaluates the failures and
successes as the U.S. government sought to return eroded soil and
other natural resources to what we would now call 'sustainability.'
Whatever
your pet solution to the rich world's current economic stagnation,
you will find precursor New Deal experiments lucidly described and
evaluated in When Government Helped." --Barbara Garson, author of
All the Livelong Day and most recently Down the Up Escalator: How
the 99% Live
"This is a terrific book that compares Roosevelt's responses to the
Great Depression with Obama's handling of the Great Recession in 10
different areas. The authors do an excellent job of providing the
different political and economic contexts and assessing
possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses of each."
-Robert Leighninger,
"The path to progressive change that would lead to good jobs and
improve the lot of the poor and middle class in our country faces
great obstacles: globalization, an anti-government ideology,
disappearing unions, deindustrialization, the pension crisis,
deficit hysteria, as well as rising inequality and the resulting
weakening of our democratic institutions. But, as the contributors
to When Government Helped argue, the record of the New Deal offers
a
framework for change." --Gregory N. Heires, The New Crossroads
"[A] wonderfully comprehensive analysis of the New Deal's responses
to the Great Depression and the responses of the Obama
Administration to The Great Recession... It offers detailed
comparisons of the two administrations on banking, jobs,
agriculture, the environment, labor, social movements, welfare,
culture, and general political economy." --Journal of Sociology &
Social Welfare
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