great depression
One doesn't exactly think of future Reaganite and California Angels owner Gene Autry as a crazy radical, but he did record "The Death of Old Mother Jones" in 1931.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, bringing the modern welfare state to the American people and providing the nation’s poor long-desired old age.
I recently rewatched Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I was confirmed in my opinion that this is the greatest American film about work and class. The early scenes in the factory.
On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very.
The 1930s: a decade where you could have mainstream cartoons about children going hungry that would resonate with people's experiences. Good times.
Is the UK going to be the next Greece or Iceland? When I moved here in 2003, when times were good economically, I did openly wonder about the sustainability of.