Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition

by Michael J. Webber and G. William Domhoff

Book Overview

Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal--the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three major initiatives and explores why there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804774536
• ISBN13: 9780804774536
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"