The New Deal

The New Deal was a series of domestic programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It reshaped the relationship between government and citizens by establishing public rights to welfare, labor protections, and economic regulation, while also entrenching existing social hierarchies and provoking political opposition.

Claims that use this term

• The New Deal treated exercise and nature access as public rights, not privileges
• The New Deal convinced Neumann that militant democracy could succeed
• The New Deal did not alter the structure of the American economy
• The New Deal inherited Fordist paternalism, racial segmentation, and gendered labor division.
• The New Deal presented conservatives an existential crisis demanding new strategies.