In Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, what does Zinn see as FDR's role in events?

Howard Zinn, in A People's History of the United States, writes that Franklin Roosevelt's main goal in response to economic crisis was to re-organize the economy to overcome the crisis and stabilize capitalism. Zinn does acknowledge that the National Recovery Act (NRA) provided some concessions to the lower classes and resulted in socially beneficial outcomes (for example, creating jobs, modernizing poor regions, providing some social security, and building public housing). However, overall, these policies...

Howard Zinn, in A People's History of the United States, writes that Franklin Roosevelt's main goal in response to economic crisis was to re-organize the economy to overcome the crisis and stabilize capitalism. Zinn does acknowledge that the National Recovery Act (NRA) provided some concessions to the lower classes and resulted in socially beneficial outcomes (for example, creating jobs, modernizing poor regions, providing some social security, and building public housing). However, overall, these policies and reforms were limited and acted as preventive measures against popular rebellion (the period witnessed social upheavals as labour unions organized and led large strikes). To stabilize the system, New Deal policies sought to manage labour through state-managed partnerships with big business and industry. These measures, in Zinn's view, aimed to generate economic recovery in ways that favored big business and consolidated their powers through statist means.