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The Newberry Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture, co-sponsored by University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, and Northwestern University presents: The Politics of "Boondoggling": The Works Progress Administration and Welfare as We Once Knew It Jason Smith, Harvard Business School March 14, 2003, 3:30-5:30 pm Although the term "boondoggle" has remained part of the American political vocabulary, between 1935 and 1938 new Dealers were able to counter effectively critics who charged that the New Deal's public works projects were wasteful and inefficient. Their success was due, in part, to the national scope of New Deal public works programs. As the U.S. Community Appraisal and other surveys taken by the Works Progress Administration indicated, localities wanted their WPA projects. An examination of how the WPA functioned at the level of the project site better demonstrates how New Deal public works became a controversial political issues. This paper argues that the issue of patronage provides a superior guide to tracing the power and limits of the New Deal. E-mail or call to receive a copy of the paper. We prefer to send papers as e-mail attachments. Please include your e-mail address with all correspondence. The seminar format assumes that all participants have read the essay in advance, and that those requesting the paper will attend the seminar. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend. We encourage faculty members to call the seminar to the attention of graduate students. The full schedule for this and other Scholl Center seminars is available at our website. Rebekah Holmes Scholl Center for Family and Community History Newberry Library 60 W. Walton St. Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: 312-255-3524 Fax: 312-255-3696 Email: scholl@newberry. org Visit the website at http://www.newberry.org
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