자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016934131

International Standard Book Number  

9798380141758

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

973

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Coffey, Daina Kathleen.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : The University of Chicago., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(275 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Stanley, Amy Dru.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2023.

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Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation traces the material experiences of low-wage workers and the unemployed in Los Angeles over the course of the Great Depression in the 1930s, in particular examining how they found work, sustenance, and shelter, how they navigated social welfare systems especially as New Deal programs rolled out, how they organized to cope with an unstable labor market, and how they met with resistance from the local elite. Accordingly, this dissertation reveals how unequal power relations in Los Angeles influenced political and economic responses to the Great Depression, and more specifically, how those power relations shaped New Deal policies at the local level. As unemployed and underemployed Angelenos searched for work and developed survival strategies by utilizing relief programs or through collective organization to cope with the ravages of economic crisis, local business and political leaders often interpreted their existence and their activities as a threat to the status quo. While these leaders, many of whom were employers and growers, required an ever-present labor supply, during times of mass unemployment, the presence of a large labor pool grew problematic. Accordingly, they sought to discipline, control, and occasionally expel members of the labor force through legal, political, and sometimes questionably constitutional means.Ultimately, this dissertation historicizes the intersections of relief and the labor market and reveals the ways in which those in power used entitlements and welfare as blunt tools to control laboring bodies. It also underscores the contradictions between the construction of the New Deal state and a historically unstable labor market on the developmental fringes of the U.S. economy. However, it also seeks to lay bare the fact that the unemployed, the underemployed, and low-wage earners during the years of the Great Depression were not simply passive victims who wallowed in misery and hunger. Rather, people took action, whether this meant challenging low relief payments at the local welfare office, taking to the streets to protest vagrancy raids and exorbitant employment agency fees, developing alternate economic systems by organizing production-for-use cooperatives, or simply traveling in search of work.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

American history.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Political science.

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Great Depression

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Labor

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Los Angeles

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New Deal policies

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Unemployment

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The University of Chicago History

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-02A.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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