2. Week 9 Virtual Classroom
The Second New Deal
Mini-Lecture 1: An Expanded Jobs Program;
The Social Security Act; Gender and Race in
the New Deal; The Wagner Act
14. Week 9 Virtual Classroom
The Challenge of Industrial Unionism
Mini-Lecture 2: The Committee for Industrial Organization;
The Roosevelt Landslide; The Flint Sit-Down Strike;
Industrial Unionism at High Tide; Industrial Democracy;
New Faces in the Union Halls
38. Week 9 Virtual Classroom
Backlash Against Labor and the New Deal
Mini-Lecture 4: The Conservative
Counterattack; New Deal Setbacks in the
South; Labor Divided and Besieged: The
Roosevelt Recession
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Unemployment, Hunger, Sickness, Drought …
Second Wave of the New Deal in 1935 and 1936
Harry Hopkins WPA (Works Progress/Projects Administration) Work Not Hand Out
Building Schools, Hospitals and Playgrounds
Rural Electrification Administration (REA) Became Part of WPA
Context of European Welfare States
1935 Social Security Act
Old Age Insurance (Payroll Taxes Split Empoyee and Employer)
Unemployment Insurance (Federal and State Cooperation)
Aid to Poor Families
1936 Social Security Poster
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Aid to Dependent Children
Who is “Deserving”?
Hanging in the Social Security Administraiton -- Seymour Fogel’s Security of the Family
Agricultural Workers and Domestic Workers Not Covered by Old Age Insurance
Power of Southern Democrats in New Deal Coalition: Payments Kept Small
1939 Photo of Evicted Share Croppers in Missouri
Attack on Segregation by NAACP - Make them Pay for Truly Equal Separate Facilities (Thurgood Marshall)
FDR’s “Black Cabinet” (Mary McCleod Bethune & Willian Hastie)
DAR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial
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Second Hundred Days in 1935 – Wagner Act to Promote Unionization of American Workers
Establishes National Labor Relations Board: Collective Bargaining & Civil Rights in Industry
Leaflet Distributed to the UAW
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Unemployment, Hunger, Sickness, Drought …
Summer 1935: Show Down Between FDR and GM, Goodyear and Republic Steel
Shortcomings of the AFL: Craft Focus and Bias
1936-7 CIO Organizing Campaign, UAW’s John L. Lewis Reaches Out to the Left
CIO Orgainzing Drive and FDR’s Reelection in 1936
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Alfred Landon (R) and Union Party (Coughlin, Long, etc.)
Urban Ethnic Vote Turned to Democrats
African American Vote Swing’s to Roosevelt (See Chart)
Love at First Sight Anti-Roosevelt Cartoon
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Alfred Sloan of GM vs. FDR
Workers’ Complaints: Arbitrary Supervision, Economic Insecurity and Dehumanizing Treatment
Christmas 1936 Companywide Strike in GM
Democratic Party Kept the Militia Out of Play
GM Caved and Recognized UAW (Feb 1937)
Chart of Strike Activity
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March 1937 – Courts Declare Wagner Act Constitutional
Industrial Democracy and New Faces in Union Halls
1937 Cartoon – Hello Mama We’re makin’ History
1937 Union Magazine Cover
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Mexican-American Artists
Federal Arts Project
New Deal's "Masculinism"
2 Paintings
New Deal Photojournalism
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Woody Guthrie
John Steinbeck
Art - Theater - Labor
Federal Theater Project
Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart
Screen Actors' Guild
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1937 FDR's Attempt to Pack the Court
After Court Packing Fails, FDR is Lukewarm on Unions
CIO Seeks FDR's Help to No Avail
1938 FDR Campaigns for Liberal Southern Democratic Candidates, Attacking the "Feudal Economics" of the South
Mill Owners and Conservative Democrats Unite
Foreshadowing of Alliance Between "Dixiecrats" and Republicans
Cultural Divisions Between Craft Workers of the AFL and Intellectuals of the CIO (Many Were Jewish)
Congressman Dies' Committee - House Unamerican Affairs Committee (HUAC)
FDR's Purge of NLRB, Replacing CIO With AFL
With Economy on the Rebound in 1937, FDR laid off WPA Workers (Probably Too Soon!)
1938 Keynesian Spending Spree to Bolster Economy ... "Tax and Spend Liberalism"
FDR Backs Away from Antitrust
Coming of War Ends Antitrust
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