Decade of Despair : Winnebago County During the Great Depression, 1929-1939
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0761846409
ISBN-13
9780761846406
Publisher
University Press of America
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University Press of America
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 16th, 2009
Print length
122 Pages
Weight
193 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.40 x 1.00 cms
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Regional studiesHistory of the AmericasMacroeconomics
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This book examines how Wisconsin's Winnebago County negotiated nagging issues such as unemployment, debt relief, and sluggish industry during the Great Depression, all the while attempting to understand the effect these times had on the people who called the county home.
In this insightful study, Braatz and Rowland examine how Wisconsin''s Winnebago County negotiated nagging issues such as unemployment, debt relief, and sluggish industry during the Great Depression, while attempting to understand the effect these times had on the people who called the county home. In the fall of 1929, the Great Depression descended hard upon Winnebago County. Although the county suffered debilitating effects from the economic collapse, the pain was not evenly distributed amongst this largely industrial region in the southern Fox Valley. At the northern edge of Winnebago County, the cities Neenah and Menasha, driven by the paper industry, suffered far less than Oshkosh, a city greatly reliant upon the woodworking mills lining the Fox River. When new housing disappeared, demand for Oshkosh''s doors and window sashes went with it_and the jobs were quick to follow. The searing hardships caused by the Great Depression ravaged the economy and social fabric of the Winnebago County community.
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