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Inflation decade, 1910-1920Americans confront the high cost of living /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inflation decade, 1910-1920by David I. Macleod.
Reminder of title:	Americans confront the high cost of living /
Author:	Macleod, David I.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	xvi, 335 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Inflation (Finance)History20th century.United States
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55393-6
ISBN:	9783031553936$q(electronic bk.)

Inflation decade, 1910-1920Americans confront the high cost of living /
Macleod, David I.

Inflation decade, 1910-1920Americans confront the high cost of living /[electronic resource] :by David I. Macleod. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xvi, 335 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Prelude: Price Deflation, 1865-1897 -- Chapter 3. Prices Begin a Slow Rise, 1897-1909 -- Chapter 4. Concern Intensifies in 1910: What or Whom to Blame? -- Chapter 5. Reform in Detail: Attempted Remedies for Rising Prices, 1910-1914 -- Chapter 6. Food Prices, Democratic Political Gains, and Legislation, 1911-1914 -- Chapter 7. The High Cost of Living: Respite and Upsurge, 1915 to Early 1917 -- Chapter 8. The Inflation Muddle, 1915 to June 1917 -- Chapter 9. War Finance and Prices -- Chapter 10. One Commodity at a Time: Wartime Attempts to Restrain Prices and Profiteering -- Chapter 11. Getting By: Earners Confront Changing Real Incomes -- Chapter 12. Postwar: Brief Respite and Resurgent High Cost of Living, 1919-1920 -- Chapter 13. Confronting High Prices: Pursuing Profiteering and Systemic Causes, 1919-1920 -- Chapter 14. Inflation vs. Deflation, 1920: Anxiety, Indecision, Reversal, and Electoral Upheaval -- Chapter 15. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Cost-of-Living Index -- Chapter 16. Deflation's Consequences: Winners, Losers, and a Brief New Normalcy -- Chapter 17. Epilogue: 1920s to Present -- Chapter 18. Conclusion.

This book shows how inflation can disrupt politics and society. With no recent precedent, mild inflation spurred mass protests, myriad remedial schemes, and partisan political reversals between 1910 and 1914. Then wartime demand and inflationary fiscal policy doubled consumer prices from 1915 to 1920, triggering waves of strikes, food riots by immigrant housewives, class conflict, and elite fears of revolution. Middle-class households resented falling real incomes. Even more than today, food prices dominated consumer concerns. Yet farmers wanted high commodity prices. Accordingly, both sides blamed and attacked meatpackers, wholesalers, and retailers. Then as now, inflation hurt whichever party held the White House. Fumbling responses by Wilson's administration and the Federal Reserve led to hesitant price controls, punitive raids and prosecutions, and a now-familiar fallback-high interest rates in 1920 and subsequent recession. An epilogue traces continuing popular and political responses to changes in the consumer price index down to 2020. David I. Macleod is Professor Emeritus of History at Central Michigan University, where he taught American social and political history. His publications include Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920 and The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920.

ISBN: 9783031553936$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-55393-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

977855
Inflation (Finance)
--History--United States--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States

LC Class. No.: HG538 / .M33 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 332.4973

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