{"product_id":"people-must-live-by-work-steven-attewell-9780812250435","title":"People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePeople Must Live by Work\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea--direct job creation--that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct job creation was put into practice, employing more than eight million Americans and making the federal government the largest single employer in the country. Yet in 2008, when the most dramatic economic crisis since the Depression occurred, the idea of direct job creation was nowhere to be found on the list of policies deemed feasible or advisable for government at any level. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Must Live by Work\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rise and fall of direct job creation policy--how it was put into practice, how it came within a hairbreadth of becoming a permanent feature of American economic and social administration, and why it has been largely forgotten or discounted today. Contrary to more conventional arguments, Attewell reveals that the New Deal ended the Great Depression before the United States entered World War II and its jobs programs continued to influence policy debates over the Employment Act of 1946. He examines the deliberations surrounding the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act that was signed into law in 1978 and demonstrates the ways in which direct job creation played a significant and polarizing role in dividing the economic establishment and the Democratic party in the 1970s. \u003ci\u003ePeople Must Live by Work\u003c\/i\u003e not only chronicles the ambition, constraints, and achievements of direct job creation policy in the past but also proposes a framework for understanding its enduring significance and promise for today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Attewell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812250435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812250435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.40d","brand":"Steven Attewell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947281416447,"sku":"9780812250435","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5fb28121-a286-4f85-a5d8-8df153d04e23.jpg?v=1681517789","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/people-must-live-by-work-steven-attewell-9780812250435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}