{"product_id":"os-inventores-do-new-deal-estado-e-sindicatos-no-combate-a-grande-depressao","title":"The Inventors of the New Deal: State and Unions in the Fight against the Great Depression","description":"With this book, Flávio Limoncic offers us an original and highly relevant interpretation of the New Deal. As the global economy heads toward a crisis that echoes the Great Depression of the 1930s, it is important to examine the successes and failures of the Roosevelt administration and consider the lessons we can learn from it. While historians acknowledge caution in drawing historical parallels, it is notable that in the decade preceding the Great Depression—as in the last eight years of the Bush administration—wealth in the United States became increasingly concentrated, and workers faced stagnant wages and frequent layoffs. *The Inventors of the New Deal* shows that interpreting the Depression as a crisis of underconsumption led Roosevelt and his advisors to devise mechanisms to redistribute income. As Flávio shows, this made the promotion of collective bargaining—a radical break with liberal individualism—central to the New Deal, leading to the creation of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an administrative agency that gave the government tools to regulate essential aspects of unionization and facilitate the obtaining of collective bargaining agreements. In turn, the NLRB enabled the breakaway Congress of Industrial Organizations to achieve enormous success in organizing unskilled workers, especially in the automotive industry. By the late 1930s, even the most stubborn opponent of unions, Henry Ford (nicknamed the \"Mussolini of Detroit\"), had no alternative but to negotiate with the CIO. Indeed, Roosevelt created a state apparatus that allowed the government to play a primary role in industrial disputes and positioned unions as essential entities for national well-being, a dramatic shift from the liberal tradition. Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, recently said that a government \"should never allow a crisis to go to waste,\" since crises produce opportunities \"to do things that cannot normally be done.\" Undoubtedly, the radical initiatives of Roosevelt and his advisors between 1935 and 1940 would have been impossible in ordinary times. But this book also warns us about the limits of the transformative power of crises: when World War II changed government priorities, the radicalism of the period proved unsustainable. And Flávio concludes his excellent study of the New Deal with a brief but fundamental reflection on current circumstances: in the 1930s, both Roosevelt's United States and Vargas's Brazil were able to conceptualize the economic crisis as a national problem, to be resolved with national policies and regulations. Today, the crisis, like virtually everything else, is global, and a new New Deal must look far beyond national borders.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175511539964,"sku":"9788520009093","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/bac5a8fcb38bb31061cd96b803c63175.jpg?v=1782723576","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/os-inventores-do-new-deal-estado-e-sindicatos-no-combate-a-grande-depressao","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}