Synopsis
""Back to Work: The Story of PWA"" is a non-fiction book written by Harold L. Ickes. It tells the story of the Public Works Administration (PWA), a government agency established during the Great Depression to create jobs and stimulate the economy by funding public infrastructure projects. The book chronicles the creation and operation of the PWA, including its successes and failures, and the impact it had on the country during a time of economic crisis. Ickes, who served as Secretary of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was a key figure in the development of the PWA, provides an insider's perspective on the agency's history and the political and economic forces that shaped it. ""Back to Work: The Story of PWA"" offers a fascinating look at a pivotal moment in American history and the role of government in promoting economic recovery and social welfare.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Congress, undertook a program of public works. PWA, as this enterprise soon came to be known after our American fashion of familiar abbreviations, has aroused and held the interest of the people in every part of the land. So far-flung have been its activities that there are few sections of the country where visible evidence of PWA may not be seen by the interested. In hundreds of thousands of homes PWA has meant steady wages, which in their turn have meant food and shelter and clothing, with perhaps a bit left over for some of the comforts and modest luxuries of life. By the terms of the original National Industrial Recovery A ct, PWA was due to expire by limitation of law on June 16, 1935. By a recent act of Congress its life has been extended to July 1, 1937. As a result the activities of PWA will be continued and expanded as part of the recovery program to be financed out of the 4billion 880 million dollars recently appropriated by theW orks Relief Resolution.
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