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The Unemployed People's Movement : Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941, PDF eBook

The Unemployed People's Movement : Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 PDF

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In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers.

In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confronted an unresponsive political and social system and helped shape government policies.

James J. Lorence adds significantly to our understanding of this movement, which took place far from the northeastern and midwestern sites we commonly associate with Depression-era labor struggles. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly accessible records of the Communist Party of the United States, Lorence details interactions between various institutional and grassroots players, including organized labor, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, liberal activists, and officials at every level of government.

He shows, for example, how the Communist Party played a more central role than previously understood in the organization of the unemployed and the advancement of labor and working-class interests in Georgia.

Communists gained respect among the jobless, especially African Americans, for their willingness to challenge officials, help negotiate the welfare bureaucracy, and gain access to New Deal social programs. Lorence enhances our understanding of the struggles of the poor and unemployed in a Depression-era southern state.

At the same time, we are reminded of their movement's lasting legacy: the shift in popular consciousness that took place as Georgians, "influenced by a new sense of entitlement fostered by the unemployed organizations," began to conceive of new, more-equal relations with the state.

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