Ten. Business

  1. William D. Pederson
  1. Patrick D. Reagan

Published Online: 20 APR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444395181.ch10

Book Title

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt

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How to Cite

Reagan, P. D. (2011) Business, in A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt (ed W. D. Pederson), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444395181.ch10

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  1. Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA

Author Information

  1. Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, USA

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 20 APR 2011
  2. Published Print: 25 MAR 2011

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Print ISBN: 9781444330168

Online ISBN: 9781444395181

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Keywords:

  • business;
  • progressive reformers, establishing organizations - as a more powerful Interstate Commerce Commission;
  • Patrick Reagan (1988), in the wake of “the forgotten depression of 1920–1921,” Secretary of Commerce Hoover - institutional response to sharpest economic downturn in US history;
  • historiographical debate about business–government relations - in the Progressive Era, influencing interpretations about origins, nature and significance of relations between business and the New Deal;
  • business historians, focusing - on single firms, leaders, or structural corporate change;
  • business leaders in mass production industries - at the core of the national economy, outcompeting government officials as Hoover and his loyalists, top billing for economic productivity and growth;
  • managers of industrial manufacturing corporations - holding sway during code-drafting process;
  • Roosevelt, tried appeasing critics in business community - to get the recession of 1937;
  • postwar America, business–government relations - evolving not out of any conspiracy, on the part of business or government

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