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ERIC #:	ED526832
Title:	Labor's New Deal for Journalism--The Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
Authors:	Scott, Dale Benjamin
Descriptors:	Freedom of Speech; Constitutional Law; Labor; Unions; Journalism; Economic Change; Depression (Psychology); United States History; Mass Media; Social Studies
Source:	ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Publisher:	ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway, P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Tel: 800-521-0600; Web site: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml
Publication Date:	2009-00-00
Pages:	313
Pub Types:	Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Abstract:	The Depression and the New Deal brought together a variety of conditions and social forces that set up a formative clash over the institution of professional journalism. At the heart of that fight was the rise of the American Newspaper Guild and its battle for control over the trusteeship of the freedom of the press. The experience in the news industry in the 1930s displayed the collective shortcomings and the aspirations of democratic journalism up to that point in time, and it set in motion a reconstruction of a model of American journalism that has dominated until the present day tumult over the future of the news. The Progressive Era's failure to establish a public sphere inhabited by autonomous journalists and constrained capitalists produced a crisis in the press system and a window of opportunity for the burgeoning union movement during the New Deal. The ANG stepped into that historical moment and attempted to formulate a new idea of professional journalism, an institution sustained by a labor union, rather than a commercial trusteeship. It was an attempt to achieve, cultivate, and protect a true institution of professional journalism operating on the majoritarian view of the First Amendment through real social, political, and economic change from the bottom up. The concluding chapter of the dissertation takes up the question of what the history of the Guild in the 1930s means for the broader history of American journalism from the post-war to the present. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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ISBN:	ISBN-978-1-1095-7999-4
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Languages:	English
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