The Resource From the boardroom to the war room : America's corporate liberals and FDR's preparedness program, Richard E. Holl, (electronic resource)
From the boardroom to the war room : America's corporate liberals and FDR's preparedness program, Richard E. Holl, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Between World War I and World War II, America's corporate liberals experienced a profound ideological change. In the 1920s, corporate liberals embraced company-specific solutions to economic problems. They believed that if every company, in every industry, employed advanced managerial techniques -- such as granting workers non-wage benefits to increase their job satisfaction -- employment, production, and profits could be stabilized and prosperity sustained indefinitely. The Great Depression, of course, made a mockery of this idyllic vision. Corporate liberals admitted that private efforts failed to maintain the nation's economic health, ultimately endorsing large-scale government intervention to bail out the stricken economy. By 1935, the corporate liberal conversion from privatism to business-government partnership was well under way. <BR> Corporate liberals served President Franklin Roosevelt throughout the Depression and preparedness periods. Marion Folsom of Eastman Kodak Corporation, Edward Stettinius, Jr. of United States Steel, and others joined New Deal agencies struggling to re-employ workers and bring about social security. Later, at Roosevelt's request, they entered emergency preparedness bodies to ready the United States for the possibility of war. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the reconfigured American economy (which the corporate liberals had done so much to create) proved capable of mass producing weapons and other equipment. The bottom line, staunchly revisionist in nature, is that the corporate liberals ran an effective mobilization campaign, overcoming isolationist resistance to rearmament, Roosevelt's reluctance to grant them genuine authority, and other constraints.<BR><BR> Richard E. Holl is Professor of History at the Lees College Campus of Hazard Community and Technical College. His latest article, on Axis prisoners of war in Kentucky, won the Collins Award of the Kentucky Historical Society.--
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- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
- Contents
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- Meet the new era corporate liberals : supporters of welfare capitalism and Hooverian associationalism
- Bad times and a New Deal : the corporate liberals accede to sustained business-government collaboration
- The unready state
- The corporate liberals, the War Resources Board, and industrial mobilization planning
- Preparedness proper : the corporate liberals and the National Defense Advisory Commission
- One step short of war : the corporate liberals and the Office of Production Management
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- 9781580467018
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- From the boardroom to the war room : America's corporate liberals and FDR's preparedness program
- Title
- From the boardroom to the war room
- Title remainder
- America's corporate liberals and FDR's preparedness program
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- Richard E. Holl
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Between World War I and World War II, America's corporate liberals experienced a profound ideological change. In the 1920s, corporate liberals embraced company-specific solutions to economic problems. They believed that if every company, in every industry, employed advanced managerial techniques -- such as granting workers non-wage benefits to increase their job satisfaction -- employment, production, and profits could be stabilized and prosperity sustained indefinitely. The Great Depression, of course, made a mockery of this idyllic vision. Corporate liberals admitted that private efforts failed to maintain the nation's economic health, ultimately endorsing large-scale government intervention to bail out the stricken economy. By 1935, the corporate liberal conversion from privatism to business-government partnership was well under way. <BR> Corporate liberals served President Franklin Roosevelt throughout the Depression and preparedness periods. Marion Folsom of Eastman Kodak Corporation, Edward Stettinius, Jr. of United States Steel, and others joined New Deal agencies struggling to re-employ workers and bring about social security. Later, at Roosevelt's request, they entered emergency preparedness bodies to ready the United States for the possibility of war. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the reconfigured American economy (which the corporate liberals had done so much to create) proved capable of mass producing weapons and other equipment. The bottom line, staunchly revisionist in nature, is that the corporate liberals ran an effective mobilization campaign, overcoming isolationist resistance to rearmament, Roosevelt's reluctance to grant them genuine authority, and other constraints.<BR><BR> Richard E. Holl is Professor of History at the Lees College Campus of Hazard Community and Technical College. His latest article, on Axis prisoners of war in Kentucky, won the Collins Award of the Kentucky Historical Society.--
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- Industrial policy
- Corporate state
- Business and politics
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- Meet the new era corporate liberals : supporters of welfare capitalism and Hooverian associationalism -- Bad times and a New Deal : the corporate liberals accede to sustained business-government collaboration -- The unready state -- The corporate liberals, the War Resources Board, and industrial mobilization planning -- Preparedness proper : the corporate liberals and the National Defense Advisory Commission -- One step short of war : the corporate liberals and the Office of Production Management
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- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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- From the boardroom to the war room : America's corporate liberals and FDR's preparedness program, Richard E. Holl, (electronic resource)
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- online resource
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- Contents
- Meet the new era corporate liberals : supporters of welfare capitalism and Hooverian associationalism -- Bad times and a New Deal : the corporate liberals accede to sustained business-government collaboration -- The unready state -- The corporate liberals, the War Resources Board, and industrial mobilization planning -- Preparedness proper : the corporate liberals and the National Defense Advisory Commission -- One step short of war : the corporate liberals and the Office of Production Management
- Control code
- CR9781580467018
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9781580467018
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
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- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)963785066
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