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NEW DEAL

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in 1932 he said: ‘I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.’

The new deal refers to the unprecedented government initiatives to stimulate industrial recovery from 1933 to 1939. These new programs and reforms of programs were designed to assist victims of the depression, to guarantee minimal standards of living, to provide financial stability for citizens and to create employment and economic growth.

For example, the Social Security Act of 1935 set up a system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. This period can be seen as the beginnings of the welfare state in the United States.

The diary of Rexford G. Tugwell: the New Deal, 1932 1935 /edited by Michael Vincent Namorato. New York : Greenwood Press, 1992. 

Eli Ginzberg. New Deal days, 1933 1934 New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1997. 

The Cruikshank Chronicles : Anecdotes, Stories, and Memoirs of a New Deal Liberal by Alice M. Hoffman, Howard S. Hoffman (Editor)

Thomas H. Eliot. Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

New Deal agencies and black America in the 1930s/ edited by John B. Kirby 

New Deal stage: selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html 

New Deal and the arts: oral history interviews conducted by the Archives of American Art, 1963-1965 artarchives.si.edu/oralhist/transnda.htm 

Women and social movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [womhist.binghamton.edu/index.html] has some full text New Deal related documents on women workers.

Can the New Deal's Three R's Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis 
PRICE V. FISHBACK, University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
SHAWN EVERETT KANTOR, University of California, Merced - School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
JOHN JOSEPH WALLIS, University of Maryland - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 
Abstract: We examine the importance of Roosevelt's 'relief, recovery, and reform' motives to the distribution of New Deal funds across over 3,000 U.S. counties, program by program. The major relief programs most closely followed Roosevelt's three R's. Other programs were tilted more in favor of areas with higher incomes. For all programs spending for political advantage in upcoming elections was a significant factor. Roosevelt's successful reelections were based on developing specific programs for a broad range of constituents, delivering on his stated goals, but also spending more at the margin for political purposes. - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=307873

How Did Women Needleworkers Influence New Deal Labor Policies in Puerto Rico?
Abstract: The implementation of the New Deal's National Industrial Recovery Act in Puerto Rico in 1933 led to conflict in the island's needle trades as workers and employers struggled first over the Code of Fair Competition for the industry and then over wages and working conditions under the National Recovery Administration. This editorial project focuses on developments in Mayaguez, a garment center on Puerto Rico's west coast, where this struggle erupted with particular force. - binghamton.edu/womhist/prns/abstract.htm

New Deal Documents - newdeal.feri.org/misc/keynes1.htm
Abstract of conversation with Mr. John Maynard Keynes - Recorded by A. P. Chew - newdeal.feri.org/misc/keynes1.htm  

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