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- Title
Government Job Creating Programs -- Lessons from the 1930s and 1940s.
- Authors
Long, Jennifer
- Abstract
The article discusses government job creation programs of the 1930s and 1940s in the United States. Public acceptance of government job programs and thus their success will depend on the reconciling of the economic need for employment with the need for employment that meets social definitions of proper work. The process of job creation through government programs as it happened some 60 years ago illustrates this connection between public perception of the created jobs and the programs' success. Knoxville, a mid-sized Appalachian city that serves as a regional hub, offers examples of infusions of government money on a large scale that resulted in both direct and indirect employment creation. Direct employment relief came with the New Deal in the 1930s, especially with the Works Progress Administration. Indirect employment came with expenditures for the Tennessee Valley Authority and about 10 years later, for the nuclear weapons facilities at Oak Ridge. The depression brought unemployment and economic misery to Knoxville, as it did to the rest of the nation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FULL employment policies; CASE studies; JOB creation; EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Journal of Economic Issues (Association for Evolutionary Economics), 1999, Vol 33, Issue 4, p903
- ISSN
0021-3624
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00213624.1999.11506220