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==Further reading== * Badger, Anthony J. "Doles and Jobs: Welfare." in ''The New Deal'' (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1989) pp. 190β244.{{ISBN?}} * Bremer, William W. "Along the "American Way": The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed", ''Journal of American History'' Vol. 62, No. 3 (Dec., 1975), pp. 636β652 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2936218 in JSTOR] * Hopkins, June. ''Harry Hopkins: Sudden hero, brash reformer'' (Springer, 2016).{{ISBN?}} * Lewis, Michael. "No Relief From Politics: Machine Bosses and Civil Works." ''Urban Affairs Quarterly'' 30.2 (1994): 210β226. * Lyon, Edwin A. ''A new deal for southeastern archaeology'' (University of Alabama Press, 1996).{{ISBN?}} * Neumann, Todd C., Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor. "The dynamics of relief spending and the private urban labor market during the New Deal." ''Journal of Economic History'' 70.1 (2010): 195β220. [https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13692/w13692.pdf online] * Peters, Charles and Timothy Noah. "Wrong Harry β Four million jobs in two years? FDR did it in two months" ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' Jan. 26, 2009 [http://www.slate.com/id/2209781 online] * Schwartz, Bonnie Fox. ''The Civil Works Administration, 1933β1934: The Business of Emergency Employment in the New Deal'' (1984), a standard scholarly history{{ISBN?}} * Smith, Jason Scott. ''Building new deal liberalism: The political economy of public works, 1933β1956'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006).{{ISBN?}} * Walker, Forrest A. ''The Civil Works Administration: an experiment in Federal work relief, 1933β1934'' (1979), a standard scholarly history{{ISBN?}} ===Primary sources=== * McJimsey, George, ed. ''FDR, Harry Hopkins, and the civil works administration'' (LexisNexis, 2006) 679 pages; vol 30. of the ''Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration'' * "[http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/u?/p4017coll8,4698 Report on Civil Works Administration of Alabama, Jefferson County Division, Nov. 19, 1933 β Mar. 31, 1934]" in the Birmingham Public Library's Digital Collections ''{{dead link|date=November 2022}} * [http://www.slate.com/id/2209781/ Four million jobs in two years? FDR did it in two months.] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110824093907/http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2009/1934/ 1934: A New Deal for Artists" is an exhibition on the artists of the Great Depression at the Smithsonian American Art Museum] * [http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilworksweb/index.html University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections β Civil Works Administration Photographs] 119 images showing work projects in King County, Washington established under the auspices of the Civil Works Administration in 1933β34.
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