Hard times
an oral history of the great depression
by Studs Terkel · first published 1970
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Des centaines d'entretiens font revivre les souvenirs de ceux qui ont traversé la grande dépression de 1929 aux États-Unis, du krach aux luttes syndicales, de la difficulté de la vie paysanne aux conséquences du New Deal.
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…circumstances. Obviously there are religious overtones here, like something out of the Middle Ages that kept the serfs in line. If you look at accounts of the Depression, such as Stud Terkel’s excellent “Hard Times” oral history, people remark about how passive America seemed, how in the face of grinding poverty, the rebellions and revolutions the intellectuals all forecasted never came to past.
on “The United Nations Report on American Poverty Is Just Plain Wrong” ↗Hard Times by Studs Terkel. While it covers a lot of ground, it does cover what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression.
on “Ask HN: Hacking in a SHTF world” ↗…mostly the same. Studs Terkel, probably the most famous interviewer / oral historian who’s ever lived, wrote a book containing hundreds of oral histories about the Depression. It sounds just like today: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565846567/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Yh8K...
on “Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis” ↗