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Title: Westward, But Not by Choice


1
Westward, But Not by Choice
  • Migrant Workers, Concentration Camps and
    Thermonuclear Warfare

2
  • Modern Times
  • Charlie Chaplin film (1936)
  • Urban factory workers seen as dehumanized, mere
    cogs in machine

3
  • Grapes of Wrath
  • John Steinbeck novel (1939)
  • John Ford film (1940)
  • Academy Award, Best Director (1940)
  • New social significance for American film?
  • Sanitized Hollywood version of novel?

4
Urban vs. Rural, Again
  • 1920 Census reports first urban majority
  • 1930 Depression hits farm economy hardest
  • John Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath (1939)
  • 1940s-50s rural US still depressed army of
    hoboes
  • Late 20th century Cesar Chavezs agrarian
    workers union, the United Farm Workers
  • Did FDRs New Deal . . .
  • Save U.S. from violent working-class revolution
    (or fascist counterrevolution)?
  • Socialize American economy government?
  • restore protect corporate capitalism?
    (Casper/Davies)
  • Fail to do enough to produce full economic
    recovery?

5
Plenty of Money to be MadeSelling the Army Its
Tools of Trade
  • Entry into WWII jumpstarts both U.S. economies
  • Women good! Japs bad!
  • Rosie the Riveter the West Coast internment
    camps
  • Total war unconditional surrender
  • Aftermath a long atomic shadow over the 1950s
  • Eisenhower after WWII
  • military-industrial complex warning
  • Cold War Red Scare cause or effect of
    defense spending?
  • Women after WWII
  • out of the factories and back into the kitchen
  • Returning GIs flood schools, suburbs the BABY
    BOOM!!!
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