POLS 0859 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Night-Watchman State, Neoliberalism, Crack Epidemic

• School: Temple University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 0859
• Professor: Barbara Ferman

Document Summary

Series of depressions and recessions, but the great depression of 1929 was the most serious. 1920s sustained prosperity, good economically consumer society we bought more than we needed. Function of urban density and technological change: cities = bigger demands for things such as theaters. Harlem in 1920s = mecca of black america. Outlaws the sale of alcohol: said to stop abuse of women from their husbands, anti catholic measure, anti lower class, protestant reformers = looking down on catholics = don"t know how to behave . Liberation from victorian era = strict morality: women getting more freedom women started working in 1920s ($ = more freedom) 19th amendment = women get right to vote. Wwi = us was owed money by foreign countries (debt: after = demand for goods was going down. Effect: -businesses lowering prices due to lower demand: moving toward lighter manufacturing (but there were less jobs available)