Essays on Depression Era

Summary

Olmsted in Right out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism, presents an alternate view on modern conservatism through the exploration of the increased labor disputes present in the agricultural fields. The book is centered on the agricultural dispute present in the Depression Era in California, which resulted in the emergence of numerous writers and artists. This motivated the adoption of the New Deal by FDR. The author explores the environment of terrified business managers due to the reassessment of their association with American politics. In order to explore the theme, the book presents ...

Introduction

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedy dram film written by Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flagg. The film tells the story of a friendship between two pairs of women – Ruth and Idgie during the Great Depression of early 1930s as well as that between Evelyn and Ninny in the 1980s. It happens that Ninny knew Idgie and Ruth and she tells of the stories about these two women to Evelyn who is in her middle ages (Avnet, 1991). The central issue in the film concerns the murder of Ruth’s abusive husband Frank after which numerous accusations on the ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to adapt to the economic changes ...