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Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great DepressionMonday 16 March 2009
by: Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith
In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world's labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It's a little-known historical might-have-been that could have helped halt the Great Depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and the Second World War. And, as the efforts of world leaders to address today's "Great Recession" threaten to break down in nationalist rivalry and petty political bickering, it bears lessons - and perhaps an alternative vision - for today. (More)
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