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The paper shows how the lessons of the New Deal provide important clues to effective and humane approaches to management and economy

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In the face of economic crisis the field of management seems to lack the broader socio-economic skills needed to deal with it. Our analysis of the New Deal suggests important lessons for management theory and practice

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The New Deal has been remarkably neglected for the lessons of management until now. The Roosevelt Administration not only put 10 million people back to work in a short period of time but linked this to humane concerns with the concept and practice of work.

Professor Albert James Mills
Saint Mary's University

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This page is a summary of: History, field definition and management studies: the case of the New Deal, Journal of Management History, April 2014, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jmh-02-2013-0011.
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