ISBN-13: 978-1-58367-206-8
160 pages
Paperback
October 2009.
Put to Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great Depression
Second Edition, Including a New Introduction and Afterword
With unemployment surging to record levels and the economy in freefall, experts are looking to the Great Depression for lessons in stimulating job creation. Then, as now, the system was unable to provide the jobs and financial support desperately needed by millions of people. But then — in the 1930s — the state intervened to create massive employment programs that put people to work on socially useful projects in states, cities, and towns across the country. The scope of these programs was unprecedented and never repeated in the decades that followed. Today, as the severity of the economic crisis increasingly resembles that of the Great Depression, the time for a reappraisal of the New Deal employment programs has never been more necessary.
