Code writing

Blue Eagle Stamp

Regulate economy

Self-governed industry

Nationwide rescue legislation

National Recovery Act

National Recovery Administration

TWO GOALS: Create fair practices in industry by:

1. Setting prices of goods.

2. Setting minimum wages for workers.

CONTROVERSIAL: Violated the Free-Enterprise System.

Business owners abused it.

Civilian Conservation Corps

Young Men

Work Camps

Reforestation

Unemployment Relief

Road Construction

Civilian Conservation Corps

3 million men between the ages of 18-25.

WORK DONE: Plant trees, build roads, build parks, build bridges, flood control.

Overwhelming SUCCESS: Improving the lives of workers and fixing the environment.

• Federally Owned• Modernize Agrarian Society• Very Controversial• Electricity• Dams, Energy Plants

TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennessee Valley AuthorityWHY? Half of the people in the Tennessee Valley were in poverty. Deforestation and flooding had left the land infertile.

What did this do? Would produce and sell cheap electric power, control floods, replant forests, etc.OVERWHELMING SUCCESS, but controversial because critics said it “reeked of Socialism.”

What Am I?

Parity Pricing

Rose Prices

Immediate Relief

Destroyed Goods

Farmers

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Agricultural Adjustment Act

The AAA sought to raise crop prices by lowering production.

Overproduction- The government paid farmers to NOT farm land, and to plow over crops.

Falling prices- By decreasing the surplus of farm goods, the government raised the prices of goods sold.

Provide Jobs

Economic Stimulus

Public WelfareAmerican Industry

Public Construction

Public Works Administration

Public Works AdminstrationWORK DONE: Large scale engineering

projects, like highways, bridges, power plants, and dams.ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee Dam.

DIFFERENCES: THE CWA was all about relief and getting money in peoples’ pockets. The PWA was about providing work and ALSO helped encourage recovery.

Critics speak…

American Liberty League “You’ve gone too far.”

Rev. Townsend - “Needy people still aren’t being helped.”

Huey Long – “Let’s take money from the wealthy and divide it amongst everybody.”

SSA (Social Security Act)

Old age pension

Upton Sinclair and Huey Long getting their way

Excluded farmers and domestic workers

Unemployment help- better lose a job first

Employers and employees working together

Social Security Act• Senior Citizens• Unemployed People• Families with dependent children

“Old Age Insurance” Half from workers and Half from employers

Unemployment checks come from a tax on Employers.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Glass-Steagall Act• Government oversight• Trust in banks• Insured money• Banking Act

FDIC

The government will insure any bank accounts up to $5,000 then and $100,000 now.

Hoped to boost the confidence people had in banks and encourage them to get their money back in the banks.

1. 19352. Magna Carta for

labor3. Trade union4. Collective bargaining5. AKA Wagner Act

National Labor Relations Act

The Wagner Act is the most significant law ever passed in the history of the Labor movement.

Government backing of your ability to join a union AND bargain with your boss for improvements.

1. Commerce

2. Employee

3. Time-and-a-half

4. Child Labor

5. Minimum WageFair Labor Standards Act

The Fair Labor Standards Act creates Federal laws that provide better working conditions for most laborers in the country.

OVERTIME, LIMITED HOURS, MINIMUM WAGE.