Depression America

Badger, Anthony J.

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“…Even by historical standards, this flurry of lawmaking activity was considered unprecedented (Badger, 2009). If the current era of American politics has clearly illustrated, it is difficult to imagine what circumstances would need to take place for this similar type of political will to happen today.…”

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“…A proto-crisis management practitioner Just as Hopkins settled into his work leading FERA, his hard work ethic and driven personality made him the obvious choice to lead additional New Deal initiatives. Not even to the end of his first calendar year in Washington, Hopkins' portfolio expanded with the addition of the Civil Works Administration (CWA)an agency that created temporary manual-labour jobs during the hard winter of 1933-1934(Badger, 1989. Once CWA concluded, Roosevelt leaned on Hopkins again to supervise the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which supplied the unemployed with construction work building public infrastructure (e.g.…”

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Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

Deal,

MacIsaac,

Mills

et al. 2023

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit the potential of the New Deal as a research context in management and organization studies and, in doing so, forward the role one of its chief architects, Harry Hopkins, played in managing the economic crisis. The exploration takes us to multiple layers that work together to form context around Hopkins including the Great Depression, the Roosevelt Administration, and ultimately, the New Deal. By raising Harry Hopkins as an exemplar of historical-narrative exclusion, the authors can advance the understanding of his role in the New Deal and how his actions produced early insights about management (e.g. modern crisis management). Design/methodology/approach The paper experiments with the methodological assemblage of ANTi-History and microhistorical analysis that the authors call “ANTi-Microhistory” to examine the life narrative of Harry Hopkins, his early association with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and later, the New Deal. To accomplish this, the authors undertake a programme of archival research (e.g. the digital repository of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum) and assess various materials (e.g. speeches, biographies and memoirs) from across multiple spaces. Findings The findings suggest Harry Hopkins to be a much more powerful actor in mobilizing New Deal policies and their effect on early management thought than what was previously accepted. In the process, the authors found that because of durable associations with Roosevelt, key policy architects of the same ilk as Harry Hopkins (e.g. Frances Perkins, Henry Wallace, Lewis Douglas, and others) and their contributions have been marginalized. This finding illustrates the significant potential of little-known historical figures and how they might shed new insight on the development of the field and management practice. Originality/value The aim is to demonstrate the potential of engaging historical research in management with the individual – Harry Hopkins – as a unit of analysis. By engaging historical research on the individual – be it well-known or obscure figures of the past – the authors are considering how they contribute to the understanding of phenomena (e.g. New Deal, Progressivism or Keynesian economics). The authors build on research that brings to focus forgotten people, communities and ideas in management studies but go further in advocating for space in the research to consider the scholarly potential of the individual.

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Section: Harry Hopkins' Role In the New Dealmentioning

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Section: The Ambitious Reformermentioning

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Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

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MacIsaac,

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“…1.Scholarship on the Great Depression and New Deal is vast, but for a concise overview of the period, see Badger (1989). …”

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The American Ballet's Caravan

Steichen¹

2015

Dance Res. J.

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This article chronicles the formation and first season of the dance company Ballet Caravan (1936–1940) with a special focus on the role of Lincoln Kirstein in the troupe's founding. This account of the Caravan's early history draws upon an array of primary sources to offer new perspectives on the company's relationship to modern dance circles and its parent organizations (the American Ballet and School of American Ballet, co-founded by Kirstein and George Balanchine in 1934). It traces Ballet Caravan's touring activities during 1936 (including its debut at Bennington College) and details ballets created for the company by Lew Christensen, Eugene Loring, and William Dollar, as well as previously unknown early choreographic work by Erick Hawkins. This account reveals that Ballet Caravan was initially conceived of neither as a dancer-driven initiative nor a deliberate attempt by Kirstein to pursue an American artistic agenda (as it has been previously understood by scholars), but rather was a practical response to institutional crises in the larger Balanchine–Kirstein ballet enterprise. The American Ballet and Ballet Caravan thus reveal themselves in 1936 as more contiguous than distinct, sharing personnel and aesthetic values, as well as the involvement of Balanchine himself.

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“…Monnet learnt that Harry Hopkins was beyond question the one who had the decisive say in Roosevelt's appraisal and verdict of a particular situation. The literature on Roosevelt's personal circle agrees that Hopkins was the President's closest associate and most prominent counsellor (Badger, , p. 5). Anderson goes even further, arguing that Hopkins ‘was probably the most powerful presidential aide who ever lived’ (Anderson, , p. 66).…”

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Discreet Players: Jean Monnet, Transatlantic Networks and Policy‐Makers in International Co‐operation

Chira-Pascanut

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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The origins of the first supranational European community can be traced back to the bold and imaginative proposal drafted by Jean Monnet in early 1950. Yet his plan entered history under a different name: that of the statesman who offered his political backing -Robert Schuman. This article investigates the factors that made it possible for political leaders to accept this groundbreaking idea. Furthermore, it investigates the source of Monnet's power and influence, which helped to persuade various leaders at different times. By adopting a transnational network approach, it concludes that policy-makers' acceptance of the coal and steel plan was the result of Monnet's special method of persuasion, developed and refined over the years, and the activity of and pressure exerted by his close network of influential transatlantic friends.

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Depression America

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Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

Recovering the neglected importance of Harry Hopkins’ role in the New Deal: insights for management and organization studies

The American Ballet's Caravan

Discreet Players: Jean Monnet, Transatlantic Networks and Policy‐Makers in International Co‐operation

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