Her first husband found work helping to build the Possum Kingdom Lake dam, one of the major public works projects launched during the Great Depression to boost employment. Early years in tents"We just ...

Her first husband found work helping to build the Possum Kingdom Lake dam, one of the major public works projects launched during the Great Depression to boost employment. Early years in tents ...

Both James and Dunayevskaya arrived in the United States in the 1920s, before the Great Depression, when Marxists of all stripes understandably viewed that long downturn as proof of the chaos and ...

The Great Depression was triggered by several factors, including the stock market crash of 1929, but the entire nation felt its effects. Employment was drastically reduced, with almost 25% of the ...

However, these studies rely on highly aggregated national data (using fewer than 25 data points) and potentially biased measures of the Great Depression. The authors assess the effects of the Great ...