01:512:103 Lecture 9: Chapter 24 Outlines

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: American History Courses
• Course: 01:512:103
• Professor: petersilver

Document Summary

Chapter 24: the great depression and the new deal. American communities: sit-down strike at flint: automobile workers organize a new. Feb. 11, 1937: sit down strike in flint, michigan complete uaw gets recognition. 80% of flint"s population worked for gm (lumbering and carriage making) 50% of population in poverty b/c of gr. The federal emergency relief admin & works progress admin had to help. New deal provided relief and employment, allowed unions united automobile. Workers: national labor relations act/ wagner act- let ppl join unions legally, allowed collective bargaining. Natl labor relations board oversaw union elections. & agricultural collapse: manufacturing output increased 32%, wages only 8%, overproduction. 2: july- troops led by chief of staff douglas mcarthur forcibly evicted. Fdr and the first new deal: fdr the man, restoring confidence, the hundred days, march june 1933. Ickes, authorized . 3 billion for road, building construction: was to provide jobs, stimulate economy thru consumer spending, priming the pump .