From Class to Caste in American Drama: Political and Social Themes Since the 1930sBloomsbury Academic, 21.03.1991 - 301 Seiten The American political theatre from the Depression to the present is the subject of this unique new study. Richard Scharine examines issues that shaped the development of the United States during this period, as they were portrayed in selected American plays first produced between 1933 and 1985. Drawing upon fifty years of social, political, and theatrical history, he provides an understanding of the events, ideas, and emotional matrices out of which the plays were born, as well as offering an analysis of human documents that are a reflection of the political events of a time. Along the way, Scharine illustrates how the dramatic representation of American inequalities has evolved in recent decades from the concerns of class to the way class is predetermined by caste. |
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... industry " ) undercut potential abuse by the supplier.7 However , Adam Smith had built his theory on a relatively equal distribution of wealth . By 1929 , 200 corporations held 22 percent of America's total wealth and 49 percent of its ...
... Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) was formed . Unlike the older , craft - organized American Federation of Labor , CIO unions were industry - wide , giving them the capability of shutting down an industry with a single strike . The AFL ...
... industries in which their rank and file worked . To organize an industry from the " grassroots " -literally , in Delano - seems a dra- matic anachronism . But then the farm laborer is hopelessly behind his urban counterpart . A 1971 ...
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The Great DepressionSocial Themes in the Theatrical | 1 |
Labor and the Left | 9 |
OneThird of a Nation | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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