Author:
Attewell, Steven, author.
ImprintPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Descriptionviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction. Prehistory of an Idea -- Chapter 1. First Objective of Reform: Direct Job Creation in the Committee of Economic Security and the Designing of the New Deal -- Chapter 2. People or Projects: The Works Progress Administration Versus the Public Works Administration Reconsidered as Economic Theory and Ideology -- Chapter 3. "One Third of a Nation": WPA Direct Job Creation Reconsidered as a Policy Success -- Chapter 4. Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment -- Chapter 5. Jobs and Freedom: The Missing Front in the War on Poverty -- Chapter 6. The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act: The High-Water Mark for Direct Job Creation in "the New Deal That Never Happened" -- Conclusion. Jobs and the Policy Imagination.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
