What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?
By Dana Frank
By Dana Frank
By Dana Frank
By Dana Frank
Category: 20th Century U.S. History
Category: 20th Century U.S. History
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$39.95
Oct 08, 2024 | ISBN 9780807046906
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Oct 08, 2024 | ISBN 9780807046944
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Praise
“A well-crafted work of social history that highlights little-known aspects of pre–World War II America.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“In this urgent and illuminating book, Dana Frank shares stories revealing the collective power of marginalized workers, the real threat of fascism and the racism that fuels it, and the capacity of ordinary people to find and care for each other despite these deep structural divisions. She is that rare scholar able to mobilize the lessons of history against our present catastrophe.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Hammer and Hoe
“The US lurched between democratic renewal and outright fascism in the 1930s. . . . Frank skillfully shows how working-class people experimented with new forms of organizing. . . . Our understanding of the Great Depression and its contested legacies will never be the same thanks to this brilliant and timely book.”
—Paul Ortiz, author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States
“Frank translates her rich archival discoveries of formidable historical episodes into lucid storytelling that offers inspiration and warnings for our own times. Do not sleep on the riveting chapter on wet nurses in Chicago who organized a novel strike to amplify the value of their domestic and reproductive labor in 1937. As Frank centers these Black women, she imagines a movement in which the most inconsequential can be lifted so that all work and all workers can be treated with dignity and respect.”
—Tera W. Hunter, author of Bound in Wedlock
“In this honest, often surprising book, Frank reframes the 1930s as a moment in which common individuals struggled to make sense of a world in collapse. She reminds us of the precarity and promise of democracy in a nation prone to racial logics and xenophobic outbursts. We need this reminder, now, more than ever.”
—Matt Garcia, author of Eli and the Octopus
“In four seemingly disparate accounts of grassroots collective action during the Great Depression, Frank reveals much about how politically nimble regular people have been, to both heroic and rancid ends. Enjoy this beautifully crafted book, then get to work democratizing the economy and society.”
—Gwendolyn Mink, coauthor of Fierce and Fearless
Table Of Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
A New Social Order: From Mutual Aid to Mass Relief Protests
CHAPTER TWO
A Tale of Two Caravans: Mexican Repatriados and “Dust Bowl” Migrants
CHAPTER THREE
Whose Labor Movement? The 1937 Chicago Wet Nurses’ Strike
CHAPTER FOUR
A Nest of Fascists: The Black Legion in Lima, Ohio
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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