Voluntarism, Planning, and the State

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Voluntarism, Planning, and the State The American Planning Experience, 1914-1946

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Edited by Jerold E. Brown and Patrick D. Reagan

Foreword by Ellis W. Hawley

ISBN: 0-313-26177-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-26177-0

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188 pages, bibliog., index,

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/11/1988

List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Series Title: Contributions in American History

Series Number: 130

Reviews:

The provocative essays in this interesting volume should spark further, much needed inquiry into the contradictory history of American planning.
—Journal of Economic History
In 1974 the Initiative Committee for National Economic Planning was organized with the help of Leonard Woodcock. Since that time organized labor's agenda for planning has grown to include a variety of ideas that fall under the broad heading of `industrial policy' . . . . In seven different papers, the evolution of planning in America from the Progressive era to the end of World War II is discussed. Of the seven essays, I found four to be especially interesting. Donald Murphy's essay on the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL) traces the history (from 1914 to 1929) of that organization's efforts to promote measures that would prevent unemployment. He argues that during the 1920s the AALL often conceded to the voluntarist and and anti-statist pressures of the times. But at times it was also a proponent of active government involvement and public sector planning to combat unemployment.
—Labor Studies Journal

Description: Voluntarism, Planning, and the State presents a series of case studies of the planning process in the context of modern American history in the period between World War I and World War II. Each essay draws on the works of leading scholars in the field and attempts to make specific evaluations of broad generalizations about the planning experience in the United States. The studies examine such relevant topics as unemployment reform, labor relations, military peacetime planning, New Deal planning, and the postwar debate over price and wage controls.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Ellis W. Hawley
Preface by Patrick D. Reagan and Jerold E. Brown
John B. Andrews, the American Association for Labor Legislation, and Unemployment Reform, 1914-1929 by Donald J. Murphy
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Herbert Hoover, and President Wilson's Industrial Conferences of 1919-1920 by Charles E. Harvey
Interwar Air Defense Planning: The Role of the President's Aircraft Board by Stephen D. Bodayla
The Air Corps Five-Year Program: A Study in Planning by Jerold E. Brown
Creating the Organizational Nexus for New Deal National Planning by Patrick D. Reagan
NRA and the Planning Impulse by Francis Perna
The "Death of O.P.A." and the Postwar Reaction Against Economic Planning by Gordon P. Henderson
American Planning: A Bibliographical Essay by Patrick D. Reagan

LC Card Number: 88-15462

LCC Class: JK421

Dewey Class: 350.007


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