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Irving Bernstein. The Lean Years.

Irving Bernstein. The Lean Years. A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 600 páginas.

Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010.

Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION / Francis Fox Piven [2010]

PROLOGUE: REVOLT IN THE PIEDMONT

I – THE TWENTIES

1 – The Worker in an Unbalanced Society

2 – The Paralysis of the Labor Movement

3 – The Employer: Concord or Discord?

4 – Labor v. the Law

II – THE GREAT DEPRESSION

5 – The Country Is Fundamentally Sound

6 – The Ordeal of a Modest Program

7 – The Breakdown of Local Resources

8 – Collapse

9 – Unionism at Low Tide

10 – Catastrophe in Coal

11 – The Anti-Injunction Movement

12 – Rumblings of Discontent

13 – The Bonus Army

14 – Relief: The Emergence of a National Policy

15 – The Halting Progress of Reform

EPILOGUE: WHAT NEXT?