Impatient Armies of the Poor (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Franklin Folsom
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1808-1942
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Jacob S. Coxey, Herbert Benjamin, Herbert Hoover, Huey Long, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Charles F. Townsend
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Communism or communists, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, 1940’s, Depression, economic, Class consciousness, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Economics, Capitalism, Industrialization, 1900’s
- Locales: United States
The crisis of being unemployed in the United States goes back to the earliest decades of the republic. In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson urged the establishment of an embargo on all American exports in an attempt to free United States shippers from interference by Great Britain and France, then locked in the struggle of the Napoleonic Wars. Whatever its impact upon the nations of Europe, Jefferson’s embargo soon created casualties in the United States. In New York City and elsewhere, American sailors lost their employment and demanded of the local authorities bread and jobs, not...
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