Government and Unemployment: The Use of Public Works before the New Deal.

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      Provides an overview of how the idea of public works as a governmental tool developed over the two decades preceding the New Deal in the 1930s. Public works programs initiated during the period; Indication of idleness in industrial society; Proposals contained in the pamphlet "A Practical Program for the Prevention of Unemployment in America," published in December 1914.