Name: Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression (en Inglés)
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Author: Timothy Kelly; Margaret Power; Michael Cary
ISBN: 9780271074665

portada Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression (en Inglés)

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Penn State University Press

Autor

Timothy Kelly; Margaret Power; Michael Cary

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780271074665

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Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression (en Inglés)

Timothy Kelly; Margaret Power; Michael Cary (Autor) · Penn State University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression (en Inglés)"

Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the 250 families of this western Pennsylvania town worked with the federal government to envision a new kind of community that would raise standards of living through a cooperative lifestyle and enhanced civic engagement. Their efforts won them a nearly mythic status among those familiar with Norvelt’s history.Hope in Hard Times explores the many transitions faced by those who undertook this experiment. With the aid of the New Deal, these residents, who hailed from the hardworking and underserved class that Jacob Riis had called the “other half” a generation earlier, created a middle-class community that would become an exemplar of the success of such programs. Despite this, many current residents of Norvelt—the children and grandchildren of the first inhabitants—oppose government intervention and support political candidates who advocate scrutinizing and even eliminating public programs.Authors Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, and Michael Cary examine this still-unfolding narrative of transformation in one Pennsylvania town, and the struggles and successes of its original residents, against the backdrop of one of the most ambitious federal endeavors in U.S. history.