Today's Convincing Arguments: "How to See" entry
"She came to an understanding the misery [of the depression] she was seeing was not simply the result of the Depression, but the accumulated misery and suffering of generations of wild, unregulated industrial revolution. She was looking at the old poor, not just the Depression poor. She came to an understanding that the issues that had to be addressed were not just relief from the Depression, but really some far-reaching structural reform that would deal with the accumulated problems of a century's' worth of unbridled industrial revolution in the United State.
David M. Kennedy, "the Great Depression and WW II, on the writings of Lorena Hickok writing as roving field reporter for Harry Hopkins the FDR administration
NB: good stuff is also accumulated.