Woman Behind the New Deal The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

Name: Woman Behind the New Deal The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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ISBN: 9780385513654

ISBN-10: 0385513658

ISBN-13: 9780385513654

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kirstin Downey

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Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. Over the next twelve years, she spearheaded the fight to improve the lives of America's working people. Perkins's ideas became the cornerstones of the most important social welfare legislation in the nation's history, including unemployment compensation, child labor laws, and the forty-hour workweek. Arriving in Washington at the height of the Great Depression, Perkins pushed for massive public works projects that created millions of jobs for unemployed workers. She breathed life back into the nation's labor movement, boosting living standards across the country. As head of the Immigration Service, she bent rules to…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.57" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Childhood and Youth



Becoming Frances Perkins



The Young Activist Hits New York



The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire



Finding Allies in Tammany Hall



Teddy Roosevelt and Frances Perkins



A Good Match



Married Life



Motherhood



The Indomitable Al Smith



FDR and Al Smith



With the Roosevelts in Albany



FDR Becomes President



Frances Becomes secretary of Labor



The Pioneer



Skeletons in the Labor Department Closet



Jump-Starting the Economy



At Home with Mary Harriman



Blue Eagle: A First Try at "Civilizing Capitalism"



Refugees and Regulations



Rebuilding the House of Labor



Labor Shakes Off Its Slumber



The Union Movement Revitalizes and Splits Apart



Social Security



Family Problems



Court-Packing, Wages, and Hours



Impeachment



War Clouds and Refugees



Frances and Franklin



Madness, Misalliances, and a Nude Bisexual Water Sprite



The War Comes



Last Days of the Roosevelt Administration



Harry Truman



The Truman Administration



Communism



End of the Truman Era



Many Transitions



Last Days


Notes


Bibliography


Index