Decade of Despair

Winnebago County During the Great Depression, 1929-1939

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

In this insightful study, Braatz and Rowland examine how Wisconsin's Winnebago County negotiated nagging issues such as unemployment, debt relief, and sluggish industry during the Great Depression, while attempting to understand the effect these times had on the people who called the county home. In the fall of 1929, the Great Depression descended hard upon Winnebago County. Although the county suffered debilitating effects from the economic collapse, the pain was not evenly distributed amongst this largely industrial region in the southern Fox Valley. At the northern edge of Winnebago County, the cities Neenah and Menasha, driven by the paper industry, suffered far less than Oshkosh, a city greatly reliant upon the woodworking mills lining the Fox River. When new housing disappeared, demand for Oshkosh's doors and window sashes went with it_and the jobs were quick to follow. The searing hardships caused by the Great Depression ravaged the economy and social fabric of the Winnebago County community.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-16
Mått:154 x 231 x 10 mm
Vikt:193 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:122
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761846406

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomiska system inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Werner Braatz is professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. His teaching career there spanned forty years until his retirement in 1999. Thomas J. Rowland is senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, where he has taught for eleven years. He is the author of George B. McClellan and Civil War History (1999) and is currently researching for an interpretive biography of Franklin Pierce.

Recensioner i media

Professors Braatz and Rowland have given us a very engaging portrait of a community in distress during the Great Depression. Both sound and extensive in its research, the lively narrative provides the reader not only the customary percentages and statistics of a depressed economy but exposes the compelling personal and human impact as well.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter One - 1929: The CrashChapter 3 Chapter Two - 1930: The Onset of DepressionChapter 4 Chapter Three - 1931: The Depression DeepensChapter 5 Chapter Four - 1932: The Depths of DepressionChapter 6 Chapter Five - 1933: The Federal Government Weighs InChapter 7 Chapter Six - 1934: New Directions in ReliefChapter 8 Chapter Seven - 1935-1937: Putting People to WorkChapter 9 Chapter Eight - 1937-1939: The Woes of LaborChapter 10 Epilogue: Hope on the HorizonChapter 11 Index