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Work All My Life: Italian Immigrant Women's Experiences In Post-World War Ii Schenectady, Lia Dambrosio
Work All My Life: Italian Immigrant Women's Experiences In Post-World War Ii Schenectady, Lia Dambrosio
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Immigration has been a topic of extreme interest within American history since its very beginning. From its earliest years, the United States has attracted large numbers of immigrants. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mass immigration commenced often as a result of deteriorating economic conditions in the countries that people left and the promising economic situation in America, where industry developed rapidly and laborers were needed. Italians were one of the largest and most notable of the many groups who emigrated from their homelands in search of opportunity and better lives, and they continued this practice well after …
Schenectadys New Deal: The Wpa In The City Of Schenectady, Scott F. Power
Schenectadys New Deal: The Wpa In The City Of Schenectady, Scott F. Power
Honors Theses
When President Roosevelt assumed office in March of 1933, he faced an unemployment rate of twenty-five percent, homelessness, and the malaise of a nation stuck in a deepening state of poverty. His solution, aimed at alleviating the circumstances resulting from the Great Depression, was to institute a series of economic programs known as the “New Deal.” Roosevelt proposed the creation of a variety of social welfare programs, including “work relief” that would provide government jobs for the unemployed. The best known program was the Works Progress Administration, or simply, the WPA, created in 1935. Through projects ranging from building roads …