Experiences of the early Depression, 1929-1932 -- Great crash and financial crisis -- Poverty and unemployment -- Local relief efforts -- Rural poverty -- The 1932 presidential election -- New Deal and American society -- The first New Deal -- Second New Deal -- The contours of popular politics -- Social movements -- Populism -- Faith-based movements -- Ethnic community concerns -- Leftist alternatives to the New Deal -- The labor movement -- Union successes, 1933-1934 -- The CIO, 1936-1938 -- Workers left out of federal law -- Women and work -- Labor's place after 1937 -- Rural life / by Catherine McNicol Stock -- Dust Bowl -- The New Deal response to the crisis in rural America and its impact on rural people -- Modernizing rural America -- Special concerns in other rural regions -- Culture -- Popular culture and the great Depression -- Consumer culture and the culture of the airwaves -- Movies of the great Depression -- Politics, art, and the rediscovery of the "folk" -- Proletarian culture and the "cultural front" -- Private lives -- Family -- Women -- Children and teenagers -- Health patterns -- Religion -- Biographies.