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Government and Unemployment: The Use of Public Works before the New Deal.
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- Author(s): Sautter, Udo
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Journal of American History; Jun1986, Vol. 73 Issue 1, p59-86, 28p, 2 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart
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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.
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