National Industrial Recovery Act

Book Critique of Folsom’s New Deal or Raw Deal? The novel that I, Louis Moore read, New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, author Burton Folsom Jr. illustrates, through personal statements and statistics, how FDR’s New Deal programs not only prolonged The Great Depression, but it left a permanent footprint in the American government’s policy making. Folsom is the Charles Kline Professor of History and Management at Hillsdale College (“Burton W. Folsom, Jr” 2013).…

According to Document 1, the National Youth Administration allowed teenagers to obtain jobs to make money. Teenagers worked long hours, but were able to help support their families and provided enough money for them to stay in school. The National Youth Administration provided much needed relief to entire families as teenagers were able to find jobs to boost family incomes and to receive…

The Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted almost 10 years; It was a time period when the America had the most severe economic. The majority of American left their home with dream to earn money to support their family; even teenagers left school to get a chance to work in order to find a better life on their own. People who found a work during the Great Depression would have a bad living condition provided. The owner housed them with a shanty, barn, or even an open field. However, the wage…

The twentieth century (1929) Stock Market crash set in motion a chain of events that would plunge the United States into a deep depression. The Depression of the 1930 's called for the end of an era of economic prosperity during the 1920 's. President Herbert Hoover was the unfortunate to preside over this economic downfall. Hoover believed the cause of this depression was international, and he therefore believed that restoring the gold standard would ultimately drag the US out of depression by…

This poster, promoting the The Civilian Conservation Corps, demonstrates the patriarchal views of Canadian society during this time period. Its targeting of the male population, while completely dismissing the female public is evidence of the lack of job roles for women during the 1930’s. The art, depicting a young man holding an axe indicates the great value placed upon unskilled manual labour by the government. This poster is an example of bias in the way that it fails to mention the negative…

non-compliance and market manipulation. Facing an unprecedented economic depression, FDR would adapt TR’s role as a reformists to help throat the economic downturn. In an attempt to jump start American industry, FDR created the NIRA which, championed national economic planning over that of individuals and competition. The NIRA, as discussed earlier created two new federal agencies, the NRA and the PWA. These new government appendages were charged with boosting the nation’s economy. The PWA…

main points of the New Deal Plan were relief, recovery, and reform. His plan to was to reform the financial systems, and get the government more involved. Immediately after his First Inaugural Address he began instituting bold, revolutionary reforms, one of the first was the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which allowed the president to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange. Several months later came the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act,…

this openly with the population “Our greatest Primary task is to put people to work. This problem can be solved in part by the government creating jobs and treating the task as we would treat the emergency of war”. He promoted the ideals Relief, Recovery and Reform to help the unemployed, rebuild the economy and create a fairer and more just society. The aim of the New Deal was for the government to create Alphabet Agencies that would disburse money into providing jobs for the poor and…

Herbert Hoover. Before the New Deal, national wages fell by a massive 87 billion (Hendrickson 65), which in today’s light, could be catastrophic, fortunately the new found set of social programs brought the United States almost back to a full…

were fed up with unfair working conditions such as, unfair wages and extremely long work hours. Forming unions was the workers’ way to stand up and defend themselves against business owners. In the late 1930s, nearly 5 million workers took part in industrial action and nearly three million Americans became union members (Rosenzweig, 465). There were many reasons as to why there was such growth and success of the American labor movement during the years of the Great Depression. There were…