The Wpa
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Our Job With The Wpa
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Author : United States. Works Progress Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
Our Job With The Wpa written by United States. Works Progress Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Charities categories.
The Wpa
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Author : Sandra Opdycke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
The Wpa written by Sandra Opdycke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with History categories.
Established in 1935 in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most ambitious federal jobs programs ever created in the U.S. At its peak, the program provided work for almost 3.5 million Americans, employing more than 8 million people across its eight-year history in projects ranging from constructing public buildings and roads to collecting oral histories and painting murals. The story of the WPA provides a perfect entry point into the history of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the early years of World War II, while its example remains relevant today as the debate over government's role in the economy continues. In this concise narrative, supplemented by primary documents and an engaging companion website, Sandra Opdycke explains the national crisis from which the WPA emerged, traces the program's history, and explores what it tells us about American society in the 1930s and 1940s. Covering central themes including the politics, race, class, gender, and the coming of World War II, The WPA: Creating Jobs During the Great Depression introduces readers to a key period of crisis and change in U.S. history.
American Made
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Author : Nick Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2008-02-26
American Made written by Nick Taylor and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-26 with History categories.
If you’ve traveled the nation’s highways, flown into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio’s River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)—one of the enduring cornerstones of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering 13 million American workers were jobless and many millions more of their family members were equally in need. Desperation ruled the land. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts: the pride of earning a paycheck; and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created. This was the Works Progress Administration, and it would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, employed 8½ million men and women, and gave the country not only a renewed spirit but a fresh face. Under its colorful head, Harry Hopkins, the agency’s remarkable accomplishment was to combine the urgency of putting people back to work with its vision of physically rebuilding America. Its workers laid roads, erected dams, bridges, tunnels, and airports. They stocked rivers, made toys, sewed clothes, served millions of hot school lunches. When disasters struck, they were there by the thousands to rescue the stranded. And all across the country the WPA’s arts programs performed concerts, staged plays, painted murals, delighted children with circuses, created invaluable guidebooks. Even today, more than sixty years after the WPA ceased to exist, there is almost no area in America that does not bear some visible mark of its presence. Politically controversial, the WPA was staffed by passionate believers and hated by conservatives; its critics called its projects make-work and wags said it stood for We Piddle Around. The contrary was true. We have only to look about us today to discover its lasting presence.
Final Report On The Wpa Program 1935 43
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Author : United States. Federal Works Agency
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Final Report On The Wpa Program 1935 43 written by United States. Federal Works Agency and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Public service employment categories.
Defining Locating And Addressing Bullying In The Wpa Workplace
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Author : Cristyn L. Elder
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Defining Locating And Addressing Bullying In The Wpa Workplace written by Cristyn L. Elder and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace is the first volume to take up the issue of bullying in writing programs. Contributors to this collection share their personal stories and analyze varieties of collegial malevolence they have experienced as WPAs with consequences in emotional, mental, and physical health and in personal and institutional economies. Contributors of varying status in different types of programs across many kinds of institutions describe various forms of bullying, including microaggressions, incivility, mobbing, and emotional abuse. They define bullying as institutional racism, “academic systemic incivility,” a crisis of insularity, and faculty fundamentalism. They locate bullying in institutional contexts, including research institutions, small liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and writing programs and writing centers. These locations are used as points of departure to further theorize bullying and to provide clear advice about agentive responses. A culture of silence discourages discussions of this behavior, making it difficult to address abuse. This silence also normalizes patterns and cultivates the perception that bullying arises naturally. Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace helps the field to name these patterns of behaviors as bullying and resist ideologies of normalcy, encouraging and empowering readers to take an active role in defining, locating, and addressing bullying in their own workplaces. Contributors: Sarah Allen, Andrea Dardello, Harry Denny, Dawn Fels, Bre Garrett, W. Gary Griswold, Amy C. Heckathorn, Aurora Matzke, Staci Perryman-Clark, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Erec Smith
The Wpa Putting America To Work
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Author : Jeff Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Wpa Putting America To Work written by Jeff Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Depressions categories.
Provides a detailed account of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the centerpiece of the New Deal programs put in place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to tame the Great Depression and get America back on its feet. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
The Wpa Guides
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Author : Christine Bold
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1999
The Wpa Guides written by Christine Bold and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In 1935 the FDR administration put 40,000 unemployed artists to work in four federal arts projects. The main contribution of one unit, the Federal Writers Project, was the American Guide Series, a collectively composed set of guidebooks to every state, most regions, and many cities, towns, and villages across the United States. The WPA arts projects were poised on the cusp of the modern bureaucratization of culture. They occurred at a moment when the federal government was extending its reach into citizens' daily lives. The 400 guidebooks the teams produced have been widely celebrated as icons of American democracy and diversity. Clumped together, they manifest a lofty role for the project and a heavy responsibility for its teams of writers. The guides assumed the authority of conceptualizing the national identity. In The WPA Guides: Mapping America Christine Bold closely examines this publicized view of the guides and reveals its flaws. Her research in archival materials reveals the negotiations and conflicts between the central editors in Washington and the local people in the states. Race, region, and gender are taken as important categories within which difference and conflict appear. She looks at the guidebook for each of five distinctively different locations -- Idaho, New York City, North Carolina, Missouri, and U.S. One and the Oregon Trail--to assess the editorial plotting of such issues as gender, race, ethnicity, and class. As regionalists jostled with federal officialdom, the faultlines of the project gaped open. Spotlighting the controversies between federal and state bureaucracies, Bold concludes that the image of America that the WPA fostered is closer to fabrication than to actuality. Christine Bold is director of the Centre for Cultural Studies and an associate professor of English at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
Questions And Answers On The W P A
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Questions And Answers On The W P A written by United States. Work Projects Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Public works categories.
Posters Of The Wpa
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Author : Christopher DeNoon
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1987
Posters Of The Wpa written by Christopher DeNoon and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.
These posters were designed for other federal agencies, and as travel posters, education and civic activity posters, health and safety posters, and propaganda posters for World War II.
Report On Progress Of The Works Program
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938-06
Report On Progress Of The Works Program written by United States. Work Projects Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938-06 with Public works categories.