... in explaining the developments of the welfare state. The Labour Government completed the welfare state but early development began as far back as 1850. The Liberal party of 1906-1914 took the biggest steps in creating a welfare state. The Liberals never set out to create a welfare state they simply intended to provide ... fixed by law, but only miners gained a reduction in hours. The Trade Boards Act was set up in 1909 this was an attempt to stop sweating' in many trades. This was the first time the Government tried to regulate conditions for the lowest paid workers, yet there was no att...

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... Hoover is a conservative. He believed in less government participation in the people's daily life. In his candidate speech, he renounced liberalism because it set bounds to the liberties of the people. He felt a great need to take government out of peoples lives [Doc A]. This is ... shown with his "hands off policy" during the depression. He believed in the business cycle and that the country would pull its self out of the depression. He did not want to use government ... 1933 and 1934, Congress passes many pieces of legislation to assist the poor, refinance mortgages, and create jobs i...

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... by establishing the SEC and the FDIC. Some Americans saw the New Deal as a way to rebuild America's economy and government after the depression. People who supported the New Deal, supported the government as they tried to create jobs, help agriculture and set up social security. Documents C, E, and H all show evidence of Americans supporting the new deal. Document C clearly shows how ... from a women's point of view. It could show how the New Deal affected women as well. Documents C, E and H all support the New Deal and support the government as they tried to create jobs, help agricultu...

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... dig a trench, then fill it in again just so they could get a salary and say they had a job. Conservatives condemned this as a waste of government funds. The Tennessee Valley Authority, or the TVA, was created mainly to set standards for electric rates, but also for jobs, reforestation and flood control. In the program, Congress measured the cost of providing electricity to this ... the ability to control prices, a socialist concept. Also accursed as socialist was the National Recovery Administration, or NRA, which set up standard competitive codes for each industry, again giving governme...

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... program of unemployment insurance."-(Leuchtenburg 253). Economy was changing, but also was the government in many different ways. Businesses that complied with the codes were exempted from antitrust laws, and workers were given the right to organize unions and bargain collectively. After that victory, the government set up long-range goals. These goals aimed for permanent recovery, and reform of ... current abuses. In order to boost the economy, power was readily and radically centralized, and the government introduced the policies of cost plus, resource allocation, wage & price control...

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... other reasons for recovery. By examining these four areas it will hopefully become evident whether or not the reforms introduced by the National Government contributed to economic recovery. Depression was felt world wide especially in America and Britain. America was affected by the wall street crash more ... buying of products such as milk, potatoes etc. In Industry acts set up involved the cattle industry and the sugar industry. Other reforms involved Nationalisation. This meant that some industries were take over by the government and had money injected into them. Industries affected b...

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... Act). The main function for this act was to create purchasing power which would help industry recover and stimulate employment. Within this Act the N.R.A (Nation Recovery Administration) was set up. The N.R.A. was aimed at employers and encouraged them to cut out unnecessary competition, to lay down minimum wages and maximum hours and to allow formation of unions. Employers ... who did follow these guide-lines were awarded with a Blue Eagle Badge which showed that they were participants. The N.I.R.A also set up the P.W.A (Progress Works Administration) which created employment in heavy ...

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... in America's past or present, painstakingly tested the spirit of the southern plainsmen. The proud folks of the south refused at first to accept government help, optimistically believing that better days were ahead. Some moved out of the plains, running from not only drought but from the new machine ... plains people had to accept some form of aid or fall to the lowest ranks of poverty in the land, and possibly perish. The government set up agency after agency to try and give federal aid to the plains farmers. Groups such as the Farm Credit Administration, the Works Progress ... the Sup...

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... chess became more popular than ever before. Another thing which became popular was the writing of chain letters. Sports became more popular during the depression. The WPA (Works Progress Administration) set up more facilities. They built new buildings, new parks, athletic fields, tennis courts, swimming pools, golf courses, and miles of ski trails. Professional sports also gained a lot of ... Works Administration which found work for four million people. The four million people worked on roads, schools, parks, playgrounds and airports. Franklin D. Roosevelt along with the rest of the go...

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... an office boy. He became interested in engineering and went to university and graduated with a degree of mining and engineering. In 1908 he set up a mining consultancy company and he became rich. In 1914 Hoover chaired the American Relief Commission, which helped 150000 Americans return home safely ... poor and unemployed, as a result he became extremely unpopular. Hoover eventually realised that something had to be done about the Depression, so he set up an organization to help industry. But this was too little too late because Hoover lost the presidential election to Franklin D. Rooseve...

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... not bail it out and wlll just let it collapse. ( 2 ) They go back to the gold standard - the pound will once again be set at a certain rate to the dollar, which is linked to the value of gold overall. We think we are stronger than we actually are and ... set it too high at 4 dollars 86 cents. Our exports are still too expensive and our imports are still too cheap. Also if our exports ... a loan. Ask America for a loan. Overseas loan from the world bank. The world bank wouldn`t give it because they didn`t like labour government.Under R. Macdonald the labour government falls - becomes nati...

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... Delano Roosevelt. FDR's predecessor was former President Herbert Hoover, a rich conservative Republican who feared policies with any resemblance of socialism, and who believed that government should not get involved in industry or in people's financial lives. With no bias to make the rich richer, and no fear that America would become ... of destitute Americans, the President created programs in his New Deals to increase consumer spending. In which, he improved working conditions, created public works, and set up a bright future for America. Although President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's N...

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... of classical liberalism were evolved. Classical Liberalism Classical liberalism stressed not only human rationality but the importance of individual property rights, natural rights, the need for constitutional limitations on government, and, especially, freedom of the individual from any kind of external restraint. Classical liberalism drew upon the ideals of the Enlightenment and the doctrines of liberty supported in ... , became the guarantor of the independence once supplied by property ownership. New Deal liberalism, Roosevelt explained, "is plain English for a changed concept of the ...

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... next major thinkers on the subject were the conservative writers who accused Roosevelt of undermining individual freedom, and that he was forcing a bloated centralized government on the people that prohibited the self-correcting processes that would have taken place. The New Left historians viewed the New Deal in a more ... limits and achievements of the New Deal. William E. Leuchtenburg writes about the New Deal as a movement of never seen before conception of the government, not only on the Federal level but even extending into the states with governors implementing "Little New Deals"...

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... to citizens as he believed that it would weaken public morale. He wanted citizens to be able to help themselves without relying on the government. He believed that the "maintenance of equality of opportunity" was what set American individualism apart from European individualism. Hoover feared that if citizens were to become reliant, they would lack motivation, resulting in a hindered ... the long run. He asserted that he cared for common Americans too much to destroy the country's foundations with deficits and socialist institutions. Roosevelt, on the other hand, understood the governme...

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... approach 100% efficiency. Another example of the successes caused from Keynesian economics is during Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society". Like Roosevelt, Johnson's administration set up many government programs and pumped money into the economy. Not only did the economy succeed and the gap between rich and poor decrease, but minority rights' increased as well. ... fluctuate cyclically, and while Keynesian practices help recover from a recession, during expansion, Keynesian economics can actually hinder growth. Keynesian economics can create an artificial buffer because of government pra...

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... they could keep. Since companies could not afford to keep many of its workers and actually pay them, Hoover ordered federal departments and head of the government of organization for construction processes to be sped up to make more rooms for jobs for the unemployed. After the shock had passed Hoover announced that the ... to be in debt. He thought that by messing with the national debt he would only be prolonging the depression and making it worse since the federal government would have to pay interest on loans (The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 97-102). Hoover wanted to wait and think. H...

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... no sign of dwindling. In this atmosphere, the popular two-term governor from New York secured the Democratic nomination on his political party. Promising aggressive government intervention and a "New Deal" for the American people, FDR was voted into office in a complete rout. In his inaugural address, Roosevelt gave ... known as FDIC restored confidence in the banking system by guaranteeing the public their investments in the banks, backed by the United States government. Many jobs were supplied by the Tennessee Valley Authority, providing energy to much of the Southeast. Legislations s...

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... most advantageous to the society." It simply encourages businesses to provide what consumers want and at the same time it discourages government involvement. He believed that the only responsibilities of the government should be to define property rights, set up honest courts, impose minor taxes and subsides to compensate for well defined and narrowly specified "market failures". To underscore ... consists of an analysis of the determinants of effective demand. If one ignores foreign trade, effective demand consists essentially of three spending streams: consumption expenditures, invest...

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... welfare coming as a by-product. It simply encourages businesses to provide what consumers want and at the same time it discourages government involvement. He believed that the only responsibilities of the government should be to define property rights, set up honest courts, impose minor taxes and subsides to compensate for well defined and narrowly specified "market failures". To underscore ... consists of an analysis of the determinants of effective demand. If one ignores foreign trade, effective demand consists essentially of three spending streams: consumption expenditures, investment...

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... payed, democracy was failing for Germany and unemployment and poverty were strictly rising. Around 23 million people were directly affected by unemployment and the government was already paying benefits which they could no longer afford. Banks shut down and ceased the loaning of money and hundreds of businesses went ... supplies as a great number of society was poverty-stricken and ill. People were forced to leave their homes and fend for themselves. The government set up various food halls for the homeless and minimal wealth benefits for those in need. However this only contributed to a...

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... Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while campaigning for the presidency in San Francisco, gave a speech before the Commonwealth Club where he strongly stated, "The government should assume the function of economic regulation only as a last resort, to be tried only when private initiative, inspired by high responsibility, with such ... kind of depression to impinge on the United States. Roosevelt's New Deal, for the first two years, mainly concerned itself with relief. It set up shelters and soup kitchens, feeding the millions of unemployed Americans. Roosevelt felt this was the way to start econ...

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... one voice was loud enough to be heard. This was the theory of John Maynard Keynes; he proposed the idea that government has the responsibility to keep the economy running smoothly, and the only way to do this was by government spending. At first Roosevelt and his advisors were not to optimistic of Keynes's ways. Although by the end of the 1930 ... 's and at the beginning of World War II, Roosevelt had cut taxes and increased government spending. When Harry Truman took over as president he stated, "War is hell, but peace maybe worse". Truman was pretty much saying that without the mass pr...

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... published The Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. The book is one of the most famous economics books of the 20th century. The cook challenges the classical economists" views and set off what is now referred to as the Keynesian Revolution. Keynesian theories developed to attempt to solve the problem of unemployment brought on by the Great Depression. John Maynard Keynes ... suggested that the government should jolt the economy by increasing the aggregate demand. There is a large difference in the classical economists" views and John Keynes." The difference is surrounding the parti...

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... of workers appealing to their city officials in Manchester, England in 1932. Shortly after, this saying also became the motive for the government to intervene with the current economic situation and attempt to bring about change to the crisis that was spreading throughout the world. While ... attempts to counteract the ever-worsening economy. In other countries they failed miserably and their actions only made things worse. In Germany, the government buckled under the pressure, and through a number of horrible decisions, made their country a trillion times worse off than they had been o...

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