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History 200F: Class and Citizenship in Postwar America: the Rise and Fall of the American Working Classes

A course guide, focusing on 1930-2000.

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Storm Brewing at Staley by Gary Minich
From the Herald & Review (Decatur, IL), Saturday, July 11, 1992.
County Relief Funds Exhausted
Evening Courier, May 7, 1935, p. 1
Meet King Joe (1949)
Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975 by Lisa M. Fine
Journal of Social History, v. 33, no. 4, pp. 805-823
"Women Who Have No Men to Work for Them": Gender and Homelessness in the Great Depression, 1930-1934 by Elaine S. Abelson
Feminist Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 104-127
National Guard at Labor Strike in Terre Haute, Indiana by Martin's Photo Shop
Labor and Management in the Steel Strike of 1937 by Charles Hogg interviewed by William Jenkins, William D., 1941-
From the Youngstown State University Oral History Program; transcript of interview taped on November 7, 1974.
Grapes of Wrath (1940) by John Ford
The dream and the deal: the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Gender at work: the dynamics of job segregation by sex during World War II by Ruth Milkman
Great Expectations and the End of the Depression by Gauti Eggertsson
American Economic Review vol. 94, 2008, no. 4, pp. 1476-1516
Hard times: an oral history of the great depression by Studs Terkel
Our Daily Bread by King Vidor (1934)

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