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Looking Backward

Looking Backward Sca NNiNg the gL o Be: Po Litic S iN eu Ro Pe, Lati N a meRica, a Nd aS ia By Jeremy Brecher, t im c ostello, and Brendan Smith lOO king Backward International Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled within two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have helped halt the Great Depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and the Second World War. And, as the efforts of world leaders to addre es as rly Depression, discussion of national public today’s “Great Recession” threaten to brea w k orks programs developed in many countries. down in nationalist rivalry and petty political The proposal for international public bickering, it bears lessons—and perhaps an works originated with the General German alternative vision—for today. Trade Union Alliance (ADGB), which included Workers and organized labor hav -e his most of Germany’s trade unions and r -epre torically advocated government public worsks ented the great majority of its workers. The programs as a solution to unemployment. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Looking Backward

Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim; Smith, Brendan
New Labor Forum , Volume 19 (1): 4 – Feb 1, 2010
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© 2010 Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
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1095-7960
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1557-2978
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10.4179/NLF.191.0000007
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Sca NNiNg the gL o Be: Po Litic S iN eu Ro Pe, Lati N a meRica, a Nd aS ia By Jeremy Brecher, t im c ostello, and Brendan Smith lOO king Backward International Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled within two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have helped halt the Great Depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and the Second World War. And, as the efforts of world leaders to addre es as rly Depression, discussion of national public today’s “Great Recession” threaten to brea w k orks programs developed in many countries. down in nationalist rivalry and petty political The proposal for international public bickering, it bears lessons—and perhaps an works originated with the General German alternative vision—for today. Trade Union Alliance (ADGB), which included Workers and organized labor hav -e his most of Germany’s trade unions and r -epre torically advocated government public worsks ented the great majority of its workers. The programs as a solution to unemployment.

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Published: Feb 1, 2010

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