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Book SynopsisBonnie Fox Schwartz examines the New Deal's Civil Works Administration, the first federal job-creation program for the unemployed. Challenging assumptions that social workers and other urban liberals dominated New Deal relief agencies, she describes the role of engineers and industrial managers in the CWA's employment of 4.2 million Americans durin
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*Acronyms, pg. xv*Abbreviations, pg. xvii*Chapter One. Origins of Civil Works: Unorthodox Social Work And Progressive Engineering In, pg. 1*Chapter Two. The Civil Works Organization: From Social Welfare to Social Engineering and Management, pg. 39*Chapter Three. The Cwa in The States: Social Workers and Corporate Liberals Vs. The Bosses, pg. 72*Chapter Four. Civil Works arid the AFL, pg. 102*Chapter Five. Civil Works for the White Collar and Professional, pg. 129*Chapter Six. Civil Works for the "Forgotten Woman", pg. 156*Chapter Seven. The Four Million: From Relief Clients to Work Force, pg. 181*Chapter Eight. Demobilization, pg. 213*Chapter Nine. Reconversion to Work Relief: The FERA Work Division and the WPA, pg. 239*Epilogue: From CWA To CETA, pg. 260*A Note on Sources, pg. 277*Index, pg. 285
